Butts a backstory

"Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy, think they're strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so mu...

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Main Author: Radke, Heather (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Avid Reader Press, 2022.
Edition:First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
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505 0 |a Introduction -- Origins. Muscle ; Fat ; Feathers -- Sarah. Life ; Legacy -- Shape. Bigness ; Smallness -- Norma. Creation ; Proliferation ; Resistance -- Fit. Steel ; Joy -- Bootylicious. Kate ; Mix ; Jennifer ; Kim -- Motion. Twerk ; Miley ; The year of the butt ; Reclamation -- Conclusion. 
520 |a "Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy, think they're strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. A woman's butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks while walking down a street or high school hallways. But why? In Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out."--  |c Provided by publisher. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-299) and index. 
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