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There is no beauty without camp: the shortcomings of the 'Clean Girl' aesthetic

Summary by Her Campus
“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine,” Susan Sontag, a 20th-century novelist and critic, said. In 1964, Susan Sontag famously popularized the concept of camp in her essay, “Notes on Camp.” Camp is the idea that beauty exists within the subversion of what is conventional. Sontag argued that camp is inherently paradoxical because it embraces artifice, exaggerat…
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Her Campus broke the news in on Wednesday, February 18, 2026.
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