Breasts

Breasts: The Womens Perspective on an American Obsession describes and explores our national breast fetish, which is defined as a culturally constructed obsession that is deeply interwoven with beauty standards, breastfeeding practices, and sexuality. By tracing the complex history of this erotic fascination and discovering how it affects mens and womens sexuality and their relationships, this book will help women accept their breasts as they are and provide male readers with insight into how women think and feel about their bodies. This awareness will enable them to better understand and empathize with womens experiences as objects of a cultural fetish.Focusing on adult joys and anxieties about breasts, sex, and breastfeeding, this text uses research and expert opinions from several different fields, including psychology, anthropology, sociology, mythology, and sexology. You will find several other issues in Breasts: The Womens Perspective on an American Obsession that involve mens and womens struggles with this obsession, such as:breast implantshuman psychology and breastsbeauty standards and breast sexualityhow breasts are portrayed in mythology and arthow ancient religions saw the breast as a sign of motherhood and giver of lifebreast mendebates on how and why the breast evolvedadolescent girls and breastsbreast activists, such as La Leche League, who are proponents of breastfeeding in publicThrough personal interviews with men and women, Breasts: The Womens Perspective on an American Obsession also addresses womens pride and shame about their breasts and their confusion about the attention their breasts receive. Ultimately, this exploration of breast obsession sheds light on our societys general fear of and ambivalence toward womens bodies. Breasts: The Womens Perspective on an American Obsession shows you that breasts have a venerable history and urges you to see beyond the contemporary standards of visual perfection to give you an overall sense of the female bodys power and worth.