But why? In Butts: A Backstory, reporter, essayist, and RadioLab contributing editor Heather Radke is determined to find out. A woman's butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks while walking down a street or high school hallways. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy, think they're strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. " Winning, cheeky, and illuminating.What appears initially as a folly with a look-at-this cover and title becomes, thanks to Radke's intelligence and curiosity, something much meatier, entertaining, and wise." - The Washington Post "Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction." - Esquire, Best Books of 2022 So Far A "carefully researched and reported work of cultural history" ( The New York Times ) that explores how one body part has come to mean so much-now one of the most anticipated books of 2022.
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