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The Ways Women Have Suffered for "Beauty" Is Mind-Blowing

The Ways Women Have Suffered for "Beauty" Is Mind-Blowing

Female beauty has required unimaginable suffering over the ages

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Ronke Babajide
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I read a lot, and sometimes, what I read takes me down a scary rabbit hole. Last week, this happened with “Lady Tan’s Circle of Women.”

The book is set in 15th-century China. It starts off with the main character's mother dying a gruesome death from an infection in her bound foot.

The unbelievably cruel practice of foot…

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