Kim Chernin - The obsession (1981)

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Science is not neutral in its judgments, nor dispassionate, nor detached.

Kim Chernin

It frequently happens that when the dominant culture loses a vision or actively suppresses it, this lost knowledge arises again among those excluded from that culture.

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Fortunately, the mind is restless; when it uncovers a layer of its own deception, gives up an illusion, exposes a lie, it does not stand idle for long before the collapse of its earlier assumptions.

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It is possible to study fashion the way one can study a work of art, so that it reflects significantly upon the issues and conflicts of its own day.

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A woman obsessed with her body is also obsessed with the limitations of her emotional life.

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Where hunger is imposed by external circumstances, the act of starvation remains literal, a tragic biological event that does not serve metaphoric or symbolic purposes. It is only in a country where one is able to choose hunger that elective starvation may come to express cultural conflict or even social protest.

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