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Book Review of The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls

The Body Project:  An Intimate History of American Girls
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Compassionate, insightful and gracefully written, this book explores the gains and losses adolescent girls have inherited since they shed the corset and the ideal of virginity for a new world of sexual freedom and consumerism - a world in which the body is their primary project.