This handout photograph taken on October 3, 2016 and released by the Hong Kong International Literary Festival on November 10, 2018 shows British psychoanalyst and author Susie Orbach posing at an unnamed location. - Forty years after the publication of her seminal book Fat is a Feminist Issue, the British writer -- who was once Princess Dianas therapist -- said women were commodifying their bodies as they tried to conform to false images peddled by online beauty influencers. (Photo by Andrew Crowley / HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL / AFP) / TO GO WITH Hong Kong-literature-feminism-Orbach,INTERVIEW by Frederick ATTEWILL-----EDITORS NOTE --- RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT AFP PHOTO / ANDREW CROWLEY / HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL LITERARY FESTIVAL - NO MARKETING - NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS - NO ARCHIVES /
Hong Kong: Girls and young women are under more pressure than ever to achieve the perfect body in an oppressive social media-driven world that could never have been imagined by 1970s feminists, says psychoanalyst and bestselling author Susie Orbach (pic).
Forty years after the publication of her seminal book Fat is a Feminist Issue, the British writer – who was once Princess Diana’s therapist – said women were commodifying their bodies as they tried to conform to false images peddled by online beauty influencers.
Win a prize this Mother's Day by subscribing to our annual plan now! T&C applies.
