Butts: A Backstory Book By Heather Radke

Butts: A Backstory By Heather Radke Condition: Great, Hardcover Goodreads Choice Awards (Nominee for Reader’s Favorite) Goodreads Description: 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 w/ butts. It’s a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution & survival, & yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. A woman’s butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, & 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. Spanning nearly two centuries, this “whip-smart” (Publishers Weekly, starred review) cultural history takes us from the performance halls of 19th-century London to aerobics studios of the 1980s, the music video set of Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back” … Part deep dive reportage, part personal journey, part cabinet of curiosities, Butts is an entertaining, illuminating, & thoughtful examination of why certain silhouettes come in & out of fashion—& how larger ideas about race, control, liberation, & power affect our most private feelings about ourselves & others.