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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Stacked: A 32DDD Reports From the Front by Susan Seligson. The book is a series of chapters that deal with the cultural obsession with breasts, their size, the surgical industry that has grown up around them (generally to make them bigger), the porn industry, and last the cross-dressing and what breasts mean in that context. The author tries to be humorous throughout the book and generally the jokes are so corny that for a woman reading the book, they are a distraction. Even so, I like her approach and I liked the book. However, it is incomplete and the author acknowledges that fact because she concludes there are no easy answers as to why breasts are such an obsession. ( ) The book was a little fluffier than I'd hoped, not much depth to it. Honestly, I was somewhat disappointed, because even when she interviewed members of the porn industry, she talked more to the male editors than to the female actors / models who actually experienced having big breasts. There was a split between the personal and the societal explorations of the author, and I think she would've been better served sticking with one or the other. Trying to do both in a 200 page book with large type meant that neither were dealt with particularly well. no reviews | add a review
What is it about breasts - or if, you prefer, bazoombas, melons, Dolly Partons, or breastasauri-that inspires such fascination? No one is even sure why women have breasts when not pregnant or nursing, but start a conversation about them, Susan Seligson discovered, and every woman, man, child, and drag queen has something to say. In Stacked, this intrepid 32DDD writer takes us on a journey through a culture where breasts have come to stand for all that is woman. Seligson introduces us to the proud owners of the world's largest augmented breasts; crusaders for the right to parade bare-chested in public; and women pining for larger breasts or smaller ones, who may resort to surgery or stranger fixes (breast-enhancing gum? giant suction cups?) to get the breasts of their dreams. She relates the history of the bra and takes us on a quest for the perfect one. She explores the thinking of surgeons who do hundreds of breast implants a year, academics suspicious of our changing standards of femininity, and the editor of Busty Beauties magazine. And she writes throughout with the wisdom and humour of a woman who knows what it is to wield body parts so powerful they can make men crash cars. No library descriptions found. |
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