Featured Title: Butts: A Backstory

Butts: A Backstory 

By Heather Radke

Call Number: QL950.39 .R33 2022  (New Book Shelf - CCC 130)

"Heather Radke considers how women’s backsides have been described, displayed and fetishized — and what that says about gender, race and more.

Don’t be fooled by the cheeky peach emoji on Radke’s cover. Despite her sporadic and careful sense of humor on the subject, the author’s account of the female butt is in many cases a narrative of physical suffering: from the tightly cinched waists of the Victorian bustle to the later “confinement” of diets that “demanded masochistic self-control, or even self-harm,” the “Buns of Steel” fitness craze of the 1980s to the risk of fatal embolism during Brazilian butt lift surgery."

Full Review here from the New York Times