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Jul 2013
47m 54s

A Lovely Conversation on Beauty & Femini...

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How has Photoshop, social media and modern advertising altered the meaning of beauty? Cristen interviews beauty scholar Autumn Whitefield-Madrono of The Beheld about 21st-century beauty and how it intersects with technology and feminism. 
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