According to Susan Sontag in “Illness as Metaphor,” the stickly, sickly woman ideal that is still a prominent part of today’s fashion industry developed as a result of the romanticization of tuberculosis in the 18 hundreds and early 19 hundreds. Sontag writes that TB was the illness of poets, artists, and deeply emotional individuals. It [...]
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“Darling, I just love it when you cough up blood.”
Posted in Thoughts, tagged body image, health, TB, thin, tuberculosis on January 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
