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001			on1398569565
003			OCoLC
005			20240523131808.0
008			230923t20242024nyua b 001 0 eng d
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020			_a0393881024 _q(hardcover)
020			_a9780393881028 _q(hardcover)
035			_a(OCoLC)1398569565
092			_a612.664 _bT514
049			_aNFGA
100	1		_aThornton, Sarah _q(Sarah L.), _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aTits up : _bwhat sex workers, milk bankers, plastic surgeons, bra designers, and witches tell us about breasts / _cSarah Thornton.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, N.Y. : _bW. W. Norton & Company, _c[2024]
264		4	_c©2024
300			_a321 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: reclaiming a part of womanhood -- Hardworking tits -- Lifesaving jugs -- Treasured chests -- Active apexes -- Holy mammaries -- Conclusion: toward a liberated rack.
520			_a"After years of biopsies, best-selling author Sarah Thornton made the difficult decision to have a double mastectomy. But, after her reconstructive surgery, she was perplexed: What had she lost? And gained? An experienced sleuth, she resolved to venture behind the scenes to uncover the social and cultural significance of breasts. Riotous and galvanizing, Tits Up excavates the diverse truths of mammary glands from the strip club to the operating room, from the nation's oldest human milk bank to the fit rooms of bra designers. Thornton draws insights from plastic surgeons, lactation consultants, body-positive witches, lingerie models, and "free the nipple" activists to explore the status of breasts as emblems of femininity. She examines how women's chests have become a billion-dollar business, as well as a stage for debates about race, class, gender, and desire. Everywhere she turns, Thornton encounters chauvinistic myths about this elemental body part that quietly justify deficits in women's bodily autonomy and endorse shortfalls in their political status. Blending sociology, reportage, and personal narrative with refreshing optimism and wit, Thornton has one overriding ambition--to liberate breasts from centuries of patriarchal prejudice." -- _cDust jacket.
650		0	_aBreast _xSocial aspects.
650		0	_aBreast _vPopular works.
650		0	_aBody image in women. _919574
994			_aC0 _bNFG
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