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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 religion, psychology, politics, society, and the arts.
Through the centuries, the breast has been laden with hugely powerful and contradictory meanings. There is the "good breast" of reverence and life, the breast that nourishes infants and entire communities, as depicted in ancient idols, fifteenth-century Italian Madonnas, and representations of equality in the French Revolution. Then there is the "bad breast" of Ezekiel's wanton harlots, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, and the torpedo-breasted dominatrix, symbolizing enticement and aggression. Yalom examines these contradictions--and illuminates the implications behind them.
A fascinating, astute, and richly allusive journey from Paleolithic goddesses to modern day feminists, A History of the Breast is full of insight and surprises. As Yalom says, "I intend to make you think about women's breasts as you never have before." In this, she succeeds brilliantly.
Through the centuries, the breast has been laden with hugely powerful and contradictory meanings. There is the "good breast" of reverence and life, the breast that nourishes infants and entire communities, as depicted in ancient idols, fifteenth-century Italian Madonnas, and representations of equality in the French Revolution. Then there is the "bad breast" of Ezekiel's wanton harlots, Shakespeare's Lady Macbeth, and the torpedo-breasted dominatrix, symbolizing enticement and aggression. Yalom examines these contradictions--and illuminates the implications behind them.
A fascinating, astute, and richly allusive journey from Paleolithic goddesses to modern day feminists, A History of the Breast is full of insight and surprises. As Yalom says, "I intend to make you think about women's breasts as you never have before." In this, she succeeds brilliantly.
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女性の乳房は、さまざまな意味を与えられてきた。乳幼児を養うもの、男性によって愛撫されるもの、芸術家にインスピレーションを与えるもの、法規制によって隠蔽を義務付けられるもの、そして女性自身のもの。それは、乳房を所有しているのは誰なのか、という問題にも直結してくる。各種の社会体制や欲望の対象になってきた乳房を、古代から現代にいたるまで総覧する文化史。図版多数。
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西洋における女性の乳房の表象を時代を追って分析する著作です。時代は土偶などの古代文化から現代のリブの辺りまで、広くカバーしています。他文化との比較視点を持つわけではなく、あくまで西洋のみを分析しています。乳房が性的欲望の対象となるのはなぜか、また、いつからなのかといった疑問に答えるものでしょうが、如何せん私はこの分野にたいする他の著作をあまり知らないので著者の論理の妥当性を計ることはできかねます。また先に述べたように比較視点がないことから納得できない部分も多いと思います。
しかしこの分野に興味を持つ人には有用な一冊ではないかと思います。というのは、広く絵画や雑誌など、時代のメディアに広く触れているのでその方法論として参考になるものがあると思うからです。日本文化における乳房の表象を扱った著作を探して読み比べてみるとよいと思いますが…
しかしこの分野に興味を持つ人には有用な一冊ではないかと思います。というのは、広く絵画や雑誌など、時代のメディアに広く触れているのでその方法論として参考になるものがあると思うからです。日本文化における乳房の表象を扱った著作を探して読み比べてみるとよいと思いますが…
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35 人中、34人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
a sweeping view of western art and attitudes about breasts
1998/7/31
形式:ペーパーバック
I found this to be an easy to read, informative book about how the west has viewed the breast in art, politics and medicine. As a researcher in the sociology of reproduction, I was impressed by her synthesis of wet nursing and breastfeeding in her chapters on the politics of the breast. I found her analyses compelling. The review of how the breast appeared in art was new to me and here I appreciated Yalom's writing style--accessible yet thorough. Her weakest chapters are the one on psychoanalytic treatment of the breast, and the one covering recent culture. I found her coverage and analysis of the psychoanalytic literature to be out of place and she didn't seem to integrate it as well as I'd have liked in the politics/art of the time. The final chapter on recent cultural attitudes and representations of the breast could have been an entire book, so I felt a bit cheated. It wasn't clear why she included some things and not others, and I think she gave short shrift to the current issues surrounding breastfeeding, esp. to characterizing La Leche League on the basis of one person's anecdotal quote. But overall, a great introduction to the breast and definitely a stimulus to reading more, especially about non-Western attitudes toward the breast. It might have been interesting to include a cross-cultural chapter... Finally, the photographs are numerous, interesting, and nicely complement her analysis.
31 人中、29人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Fabulous
2003/7/29
形式:ペーパーバック|Amazonが確認した購入
With a wonderful blend of serious history and modern humor where appropriate, the author presents a thought provoking run down on the history over 25 centuries and the photos of Annie Sprinkles Bosom Ballet on page 268 made the purchase worth every cent.
As the author wisely notes that Westerners assumptions about the breast is often wrong, and that Non western cultures have their own fetishes be it small feet in China, the nape of the neck in Japan, the buttocks in Africa and the Caribbean. That through out western history the breast has been viewed as good and bad, and by men mostly and religious men in particular.
The book is excellent in showing how the breast has been used to depict power and justice be it in war posters (Bosoms For The Nation) or the lady of justice with one breast exposed. To breasts used to sell products or alas slaves. (The commercialized Breast) How the whole idea that breasts were owned according to some by the husband, or were considered babies domain. That it wasn't until the women's movement that women demanded that what was on their bodies belonged to them to do with as they wished, be it nipple piercing, nudity, no bra etc. (The liberated Breast)
There are photos of mastectomy survivors and lord knows dozens of bare, exposed, all size breasts, which I assume the reader would expect in a serious book about the human breast.
It is a book I am so glad I bought. Also check out her excellent History Of The Wife book.
23 人中、22人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
MD/PhD Candidate
1999/12/10
形式:ペーパーバック
Yalom's book meets the highest standards for careful academic work, and, as a source, will turn out to be the standard for investigation into the subject in the future. But the appeal is broad and will engage the general reader, the historian, the physician. In short it is a good history, a good cultural study, and a good read. Fine writing, intriguing illustrations dilated to include such diversity as the political breast, the surgical breast, the nursing breast, the pornographic breast. An excellent analysis.
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