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title: "Our Bodies, Ourselves at 40: Five Ways the Text Has Changed"
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[Media Coverage](/media-coverage)# Our Bodies, Ourselves at 40: Five Ways the Text Has Changed

The Daily Beast • September 30, 2011

> High heels and bras may have kept early-1970s women enslaved by “ludicrous beauty standards,” but at least cosmetic surgery wasn’t available to the masses. Forty years later, in a culture where “airbrushed models” and “products to improve our appearance” are everywhere, the authors write, a new and lengthy section is devoted to body image—and how to resist the pressure to conform to plasticized notions of “perfection.”

  
**Read the full story:** [Our Bodies, Ourselves at 40: Five Ways the Text Has Changed](http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/30/our-bodies-ourselves-turns-40-how-the-seminal-sex-text-has-changed.html "Our Bodies, Ourselves at 40: Five Ways the Text Has Changed") by Jessica Bennett[Read the full article ](https://www.thedailybeast.com/our-bodies-ourselves-turns-40-five-ways-the-seminal-sex-text-has-changed)

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