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Tits Up by Sarah Thornton is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Tits Up about?
An innovative investigation of the five strange worlds that worship women's chests.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,...
Who reads Tits Up?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Sarah Thornton
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Medical, Popular Scientific Literature, Medicine
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