History of the Breast

Name: History of the Breast
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ISBN: 9780345388940

ISBN-10: 0345388941

ISBN-13: 9780345388940

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Authors: Marilyn Yalom

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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…

Book details

List price: $19.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/31/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction: Changing Meanings



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


Notes


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Index


Illustration Credits