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1900s:
1980s:
Jane Fonda’s "Workout Book"
epitomizes the fitness craze.
Liposuction
is imported from France and approved
in America. Twenty deaths are reported
during its first six years in America.
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| Karen
Carpenter died in 1983 of heart
failure after suffering from anorexia
for many years. |
1981:"Fat
is a Feminist Issue," by Susie Orbach
argues that food and fat are tied up with
gender and power.
1983:
Singer Karen Carpenter dies at age 32
from anorexia nervosa, bringing eating
disorders to America’s attention.
1984:
Radiance,
a magazine for larger women, is started.
1987:
The average model weighs 23 percent
less than the average American woman.
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