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Title Statement | Butts: a backstory / Heather Radke. |
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Alternative Title(s) | Butts: a back story |
Author | Radke, Heather |
Publication | New York: Avid Reader Press,2023.©2022 |
Edition | First Avid Reader Press trade paperback edition. |
Extent of Item | viii, 310 pages ; |
ISBN | 9781982135492 (trade paperback) |
Other Number | pr07025891 |
Contents | Origins. --Muscle --Fat --Feathers --Sarah. --Life --Legacy --Shape. Bigness --Smallness --Norma. Creation --Proliferation --Resistance --Fit. --Steel --Joy --Bootylicious. --Kate --Mix --Jennifer --Kim --Motion. --Twerk --Miley --The year of the butt --Reclamation. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Summary | "Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy, think they're strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. A woman's butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks while walking down a street or high school hallways. But why? In Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out"-- |
Subjects & Genres | |
By Topic | Body image in women |
Body image | |
Buttocks | |
Buttocks--History |