*Major 6 part series sold to BBC2* 'I intend to make you think about women's breast as you never have before.' A wonderful cultural history of the breast which focuses on its erotic, religious, political, commercial associations - from medieval Madonnas to 1950's pointed torpedo cups and todays emaciated waif models.
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*Major 6 part series sold to BBC2* 'I intend to make you think about women's breast as you never have before.' A wonderful cultural history of the breast which focuses on its erotic, religious, political, commercial associations - from medieval Madonnas to 1950's pointed torpedo cups and todays emaciated waif models.
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Good in good dust jacket. Ex-library. Signed by previous owner. A History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom (Author)...Hardcover Knopf; 1st edition (January 28, 1997)-HARDCOVER IN CELL WRAPPED DUST JACKET-CONDITION GOOD EX-LIBRARY BOOK BOOK SIZE 6... Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 331 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. A History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom (Author)...Hardcover Knopf; 1st edition (January 28, 1997)-HARDCOVER IN CELL WRAPPED DUST JACKET-CONDITION GOOD EX-LIBRARY BOOK BOOK SIZE 6 1/2 X 9 1/2 Language : English Hardcover : 331 pages What's in a breast? That depends on who's asking, says Marilyn Yalom, author of this scholarly, illustrated treatise on the breast in Western society. "Babies see food. Men see sex. Doctors see disease. Businesspeople see dollar signs." Breasts have been denounced as wanton, or idealized as givers of power or life in images of Egyptian goddess Isis nursing pharoahs; sturdy, maternal Mother Russia; or the more eroticized, bare-breasted symbol of republican ideals in France. Psychologists, religious leaders, advertisers, and pornographers have rhapsodized over, vilified, and used breasts to sell everything from war to Cadillacs. And, finally, women have seen in them pleasure, power, sustenance, fear, or failure to measure up.
It's a female body part that's always been there, but Marilyn Yalom shows us how our view of it has changed throughout history. It's also an eye-opening history of breast cancer and treatments for it. This is a serious book that is not intended for voyeurism.
