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Friday 28 March 2008

	Jennie Bristow
	Untying the ‘ribbon culture’ A brilliant new book explores what the relentless rise of awareness-raising ribbons – kitsch fashion items that express the wearer’s fear of disease or empathy with victims – reveals about our morbid, narcissistic society.

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