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Radke, Heather.
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Buttocks -- Social aspects.
Buttocks -- History.
Body image.
Body image in women.
Human anatomy -- Miscellanea.
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Radke, Heather.
Buttocks -- Social aspects.
Buttocks -- History.
Body image.
Body image in women.
Human anatomy -- Miscellanea.
MARC Display
Butts : a backstory /
Heather
Radke
.
by
Radke
,
Heather
.
Avid Reader Press, 2022.
Call #:
611.98 R129b
Subjects
Buttocks -- Social aspects.
Buttocks -- History.
Body image.
Body image in women.
Human anatomy -- Miscellanea.
ISBN:
9781982135485 (hc.)
Edition:
1st Avid Reader Press hardcover ed.
Description:
viii, 310 p. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-299) and index.
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.
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."--From publisher.
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