A history of the breast /
Publisher: New York : Ballantine Books, [1998]Copyright date: 1997Edition: 1st Ballantine books edDescription: xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmISBN:- 9780345388940
- 0345388941
Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Book | Whitecliffe Library General Shelves | General | GT 498 YAL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 0006391 |
Originally published: New York : Knopf, 1997.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index.
The sacred breast: goddesses, priestesses, biblical women, saints, and Madonnas -- The erotic breast: "Orbs of heavenly frame" -- The domestic breast: a Dutch interlude -- The political breast: bosoms for the nation -- The psychological breast: minding the body -- The commercialized breast: from corsets to cyber sex -- The medical breast: life-giver and life-destroyer -- The liberated breast: politics, poetry, and pictures -- The breast in crisis.
Details the perception of the breast in Western culture from ancient times to the present day, exploring the religious, medical, literary, artistic, political, psychoanalytical, and social perspectives from a male and female point of view.