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In “A room of one’s own”, Virginia Woolf wrote that, for centuries women had served as mirrors with the magical powers of portraying men as being double their real size.
These mirrors, fundamental to violent actions, explain the insistence of certain characters, such as Mussolini, to make women smaller than men, because if they could be shrunk, men could not stop growing.
