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Dara Moskowitz
Suffragist City
Self-starvation was, in the early part of this century, perhaps the most effective means of bringing about social change available to women. The first suffragists (not "suffragettes," which was a pejorative term), for example, found fasting to be the heart-string-tugging last straw that finally got the rest of America to take their desire for the vote seriously—even though women finally got the vote only after many more years of struggle. But women, try starving yourself today and you'll simply be written off as another victim of the Victoria's Secret catalog.
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