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“Healthy and “diseased, as Susan Sontag points out...are often subjective judgments that society makes for its own purposes. Women have long been defined as sick as a means of subjecting them to social control.
Naomi Wolf
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Naomi Wolf
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
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Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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