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Spokespeople sell women the Iron Maiden and name her Health: if public discourse were really concerned with women's health, it would turn angrily upon this aspect of the beauty myth.

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Naomi Wolf
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: November 12
Activist
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San Francisco County
California
Naomi R. Wolf
Naomi Rebekah Wolf
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