num_pages: 312
description: A Boobs Life explores the surprising truth about womens most popular body part with vulnerable witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breastsor loves them.Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. Shes gone from size AA to DDD and everything between from puberty to motherhood enhancement to cancer and beyond. And shes not alonethese are classic life stages for women today.At turns funny and heartbreaking A Boobs Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a womans body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history starting in the 1960s with the womens liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how Americas obsession with the female form has affected her own lifes journey and the psyche of all women today.From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehrs life-long passion. A Boobs Life her first project since breast-cancer treatment continues this mission taking readers on a wildly informative deeply personal and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender youll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.
language: English
title: A Boob's Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me...and You
publisher: Pegasus Books