The Women's Review of Books, June 1st, 1997
Some of my friends objected to A History of the Breast as a dismembering of the body, even if only in historical memory; others objected to what they saw as the voyeurism of Marilyn Yalom's enterprise. It seems to me, however, that in many ways breasts have had a life of their own, often quite apart from the women who bear them, and that perhaps a certain Anglo-Saxon prudery has been one obstacle to breasts' receiving their due as multivalent objects of history. Marilyn Yalom, writer and senior scholar at the Institute for Women and Gender at Stanford University, provides a wide-ranging and r...
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