| Description |
xii, 331 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: Changing Meanings -- 1. The Sacred Breast: Goddesses, Priestesses, Biblical Women, Saints, and Madonnas -- 2. The Erotic Breast: "Orbs of Heavenly Frame" -- 3. The Domestic Breast: A Dutch Interlude -- 4. The Political Breast: Bosoms for the Nation -- 5. The Psychological Breast: Minding the Body -- 6. The Commercialized Breast: From Corsets to Cyber-Sex -- 7. The Medical Breast: Life-Giver and Life-Destroyer -- 8. The Liberated Breast: Politics, Poetry, and Pictures -- 9. The Breast in Crisis |
| Summary |
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) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-313) and index |
| Subject |
Breast in art.
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Breast in literature.
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Breast -- History.
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Breast -- Social aspects.
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| LC no. |
96025558 |
| ISBN |
0679434593 |
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