Boom and Bust
Margaret Anne Doody, 19 June 1997
A History of the Breast
by Marilyn Yalom.
HarperCollins, 331 pp., £15.99, March 1997,0 04 440913 3 Show More
by Marilyn Yalom.
HarperCollins, 331 pp., £15.99, March 1997,
“... The sexualised view of the breast,’ Marilyn Yalom asserts, is a Western phenomenon. Non-Western cultures, she assures us, ‘have their own fetishes’. This seems dismissive, running the risk of a National Geographic style of condescension, other cultures representing the (scorned) site of an (inferior) idyll in which everything hangs out, and there are no hang-ups ... ”