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Melanie Challenger

Melanie Challenger

The Guardian

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I’ve spent years researching what it means to be alive. This is what I’ve learned

In a 1982 article, the American feminist scholar Elizabeth Spelman coined the term “somatophobia” to describe the strange human delusion that we...

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The Guardian

Melanie Challenger