Ebook {Epub PDF} History of the Breast by Marilyn Yalom

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 /5(2). Marilyn Yalom's A History of the Breast is a fascinating work focusing on, obviously, the cultural evolution of the perception of the breast. Yalom's text moves chronologically and pulls from any and all material available, from statues to literature and pamphlets, to Cited by: #HISTORY OF THE BREAST MARILYN YALOM #Download file | read online history of the breast marilyn yalom A History of the Breast Details the perception of the breast in Western culture from ancient times to the present day, exploring the religious, medical, literary, artistic, political, psychoanalytical, and social.

In this erudite and eclectic cultural history, Marilyn Yalom looks at years of ideas about the female breast, laden from the start with powerful and contradictory meanings. The 'good' breast (in ancient idols, fifteenth-century Italian Madonn as, images of French Republican Liberty and Equality) nourishes infants or entire communities. Marilyn Yalom. Director, Senior Scholar, In Memoriam. Marilyn Yalom has an extensive list of scholarly publications, including Blood Sisters (), A History of the Breast (), A History of the Wife (), Birth of the Chess Queen () and How the French Invented Love (), which was a finalist for the Christian Gauss Phi. A HISTORY OF THE BREAST. by Marilyn Yalom ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 10, Sacred, erotic, domestic, even civic incarnations of the breast from Paleolithic times to the present in an ambitious catalogue of necessarily selective cultural history. ``I intend to make you think about women's breasts as you never have before,'' asserts Yalom, senior.

#HISTORY OF THE BREAST MARILYN YALOM #Download file | read online history of the breast marilyn yalom A History of the Breast Details the perception of the breast in Western culture from ancient times to the present day, exploring the religious, medical, literary, artistic, political, psychoanalytical, and social perspectives from a male and. The image of the nurturing Madonna, invented in 14th-century Italy, resurrected an earlier tradition of big-breasted Paleolithic figurines representing fertility or nursing goddesses, Yalom claims. A HISTORY OF THE BREAST. by Marilyn Yalom ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 10, Sacred, erotic, domestic, even civic incarnations of the breast from Paleolithic times to the present in an ambitious catalogue of necessarily selective cultural history. ``I intend to make you think about women's breasts as you never have before,'' asserts Yalom, senior scholar at Stanford's Institute of Women and Gender (Blood Sisters: The French Revolution in Women's Memory, , etc.).