Heather Radke
Auteur van Butts: A Backstory
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Engaging, informative, and wide-ranging. I love these types of microhistory, especially with the connections to recent culture.
The most interesting thing in this book was about the history of why women's clothes are so wonky
This book immediately went onto The List after I ordered it for work: the combination of title, cover, and blurb being impossible to resist. And the book did not disappoint. In a series of essays, Heather Radke, explores the (feminine) butt. She starts with physiology and talks about how the butt is vital in being able to run (who knew?). She looks at the butt in fashion - exploring both the bustle in Victorian clothing and the pains of ready-made fashion which means no one's butt every truly fits well in a pair of pants. She also repeatedly engages with the intertwining of race and the perception of the female backside in multiple essays that are illuminating, enraging, and occasionally heartbreaking. There's also plenty of engagement with the butt in pop culture from J-Lo's butt to Baby's Got Back. I have been pushing this book at everyone I know since I finished it and if I'd borrowed it from my work library it would have gone back with a Staff Picks sticker. Highly recommended.… (meer)
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This book briefly (un)covers the possible evolutionary advantages and uniqueness of the human butt. Then quickly goes into the history, including racism, sexism, gender "norms" and stereotypes.
It was very interesting, but I feel like a lot of history was overlooked or left out to make sure it didn't go against the narrative the author wanted to push.