![]() ![]() Yalom examines these contradictions-and illuminates the implications behind them. Then there is the "bad breast" of Ezekiel's wanton harlots, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, and the torpedo-breasted dominatrix, symbolizing enticement and aggression. There is the "good breast" of reverence and life, the breast that nourishes infants and entire communities, as depicted in ancient idols, fifteenth-century Italian Madonnas, and representations of equality in the French Revolution. Through the centuries, the breast has been laden with hugely powerful and contradictory meanings. ![]() ![]() In this provocative, pioneering, and wholly engrossing cultural history, noted scholar Marilyn Yalom explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast-in religion, psychology, politics, society, and the arts. NOT KEPT AT STORE- order a day ahead of time for in- store pickup "cultural history?explores twenty-five thousand years of ideas, images, and perceptions of the female breast - in religion, psychology, politics, society and the arts?" 331 indexed, annotated, illustrated pages including Bibliography. As new except for faintest of shelfwear to edges. ![]()
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