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Gillian Anderson
OUR BODIES TELL OUR STORIES. This powerful global history of beauty by Sunday Times-bestselling
Brit(ish) author Afua Hirsch dismantles the colonial falsehoods that shape our sense of belonging and celebrates the pioneering stories and ideas of women from marginalised groups. ‘There’s something on every page of this book that you didn’t know before’ Sathnam Sanghera ‘A remarkable journey to unlearn Western beauty standards and explore ancestral skin, hair and body modification rituals’ Funmi Fetto, Observer ‘A vital, challenging account of reassessing body image beyond the colonial, patriarchal gaze’
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UK £12.99 CAN $27.99 I S B N 978-1-529-95419-7
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