A History of the Breast.(Review)

Journal of Social History | June 22, 1999| | Copyright

By Marilyn Yalom (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1997. xii plus 314pp. index, hardback $29.95).

It's not the Nobel Prize or Quantum Physics that comes to mind when thinking of Jayne Mansfield, Marilyn Monroe or Pamela Anderson. In A History of the Breast the Stanford University scholar Marilyn Yalom takes her readers on an adventurous journey to the source of men's infatuation with the bosom which eventually evolved into what is crudely known as the tits and ass culture of the late 20th century Western society. With an eclectic range of sources varying from iconography, ...

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