A Look Back. The Cultural History of Women's Buttocks

Butt, backside, derriere, bum — in almost any language, there is an impressive array of definitions and euphemisms for this outstanding part of the body. Paying tribute to its place and significance in cultural history, American journalist Heather Radke devoted... her debut book "A Look Back" to women's buttocks. And she didn't miss the mark. Both fundamental science and colonial discourse, racial prejudices, popular culture, ethics, and aesthetics have been drawn into the orbit of... the female butt. Radke's provocative and witty book touches on a mass of urgent questions and problems, common clichés and harmful stereotypes, and allows us to view this cultural phenomenon from a different perspective and angle.