A woman’s flattening happens when one of those fragmented parts absorbs the rest of her identity. This can be physical: a woman with big boobs is isolated into just those boobs. Cultural: a single woman is a roving and lonely soul. Sexual: a woman who has an affair with a married man is nothing more than a slut. Racial: a woman who is not white is defined only by the colour of her skin. And biological: she becomes someone who has either produced a child or not.
