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A History of the Breast

A History of the Breast

Yalom, Marilyn

Paperback

General ReferenceAnthropologyWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 0345388941
ISBN13: 9780345388940
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: Mar 31 1998
Pages: 352
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.82 Width: 5.90 Depth: 9.12
Language: English
In this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast--in religion, psychology, politics, society, and the arts.

Through the centuries, the breast has been laden with hugely powerful and contradictory meanings. There is the good breast of reverence and life, the breast that nourishes infants and entire communities, as depicted in ancient idols, fifteenth-century Italian Madonnas, and representations of equality in the French Revolution. Then there is the bad breast of Ezekiel's wanton harlots, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, and the torpedo-breasted dominatrix, symbolizing enticement and aggression. Yalom examines these contradictions--and illuminates the implications behind them.

A fascinating, astute, and richly allusive journey from Paleolithic goddesses to modern day feminists, A History of the Breast is full of insight and surprises. As Yalom says, I intend to make you think about women's breasts as you never have before. In this, she succeeds brilliantly.

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