New! Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History
Printer-friendly versionThe new book Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, by Florence Williams, has been attracting lots of attention lately.
Williams focuses on the importance of understanding breasts as more than sex objects, showing how they act as "a particularly fine mirror of our industrial lives."
Of particular interest is the author’s examination of how breasts are very vulnerable to toxins produced in our society and that we need to go "upstream" to protect breast health. She argues for large scale, systemic changes to prevent diseases such as breast cancer – and not just changes to our individual lifestyles.
Listen to a story about it on National Public Radio, Just What's Inside Those Breasts?
Read an interview with the author in Maclean’s, In conversation: Florence Williams - On why we have breasts, what we don’t know about implants, and the future of breastfeeding
Visit the author’s website.
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