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Susie Orbach in conversation with Charo Izquierdo

Women’s bodies, a question of ownership

Segovia 2017, 

Author of Fat is a Feminist Issue and Bodies, Susie Orbach talks to Spanish journalist Charo Izquierdo, who has edited some of Spain’s best-known fashion magazines and is now the director of the Mercedes Benz Fashion Week in Madrid, about reconstructive surgery, eating disorder, identity crises and the lengths women around the world go to in order to conform to the Western media’s notions of beauty.