A history of the breast
By: Marilyn Yalom
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf; Distributed by Random House, Inc.
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 331
ISBN-13: 9780679434597
Subjects: Visualisatie; Breast in art; Beeldende kunsten; Social aspects; Borsten; Breast; Breast in literature; Busen; History; Kultur
Description: This engrossing work of original research is the first to consider how the breast has been perceived in the Western world from ancient days to the present - how it has been understood in religion, in the arts, in medicine, in psychoanalysis (by Freud as erotically secondary to the phallus, then by Melanie Klein as the original object of desire).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-313) and index.
Table of contents: title: Contents: Introduction: Changing meanings; title: The sacred breast: goddesses, priestesses, biblical women, saints, and madonnas; title: The erotic breast: "orbs of heavenly frame"; title: The domestic breast: a Dutch interlude; title: The political breast: bosoms for the nation; title: The psychological breast: minding the body; title: The commercialized breast: from corsets to cyber-sex; title: The medical breast: life-giver and life-destroyer; title: The liberated breast: politics, poetry, and pictures; title: The breast in crisis.