![]() ![]() Library Journal (starred review) Heather Radke’s social history of female butts promises to be a deeply researched and thoroughly fascinating look (ogle) at a body part that has long captured the cultural imagination. ![]() Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an illuminating, and thoughtful examination of why certain silhouettes come in and out of fashion-and how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, and power affect our most private feelings about ourselves and others. A fun, fascinating, and surprisingly empowering exploration of the history and cultural significance of the butt. A woman’s butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified. 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. Summer is the time of year when people are wearing their shortest shorts and their smallest bathing suits, so what better way to celebrate everyone’s best. ![]() She is the author of the book “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. ![]() Heather Radke is an essayist, journalist, contributing editor and reporter for the Peabody-award winning podcast, Radiolab from WNYC. ![]()
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