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The starting point for this article is Erving Goffman's concept of stigma. Referring to her own surveys, the authoress analyses Tseëlon's claim that the physical body can be treated as a stigma. She considers which aspects of the body - e.g. the natural odour, old age, illness or the absence of depilation - stigmatises a person most, and in which social groups. The explanation is that it depends on...
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