![]() A few of the sections are on: Sarah Bartmann, Sir Mix-a-Lot, Jennifer Lopez, Miley, Paris & Kim, Beyonce, original twerkers, and even Heather Radke (the author). While there are overarching themes and points throughout the book, Radke makes larger points by dividing the book into (in)famous butts and the persons to whom they belonged, and how they were discussed in context. Fascination with butts may have to do with their forbidden-ness, their other-ness, cool-ness, or even the comfort of dehumanizing people with certain shapes of butts. The basic idea, as I understand it, is that white Westerners have been both attracted to and repulsed by butts because of the people attached to them. Author Heather Radke zooms around in the last few hundred years of history, then zooms up over it all so we can see the common themes, or rather the same theme, over time. ![]() ![]() With that bit of business behind us, here is the review in earnest:īutts is a good book. The misdirection is certainly the fault of the publisher, as the author is very clear on the book’s intentions from the Introduction on. Rather than being a fun “backstory” of our fascination with butts, it’s a pretty straightforward gender and race studies critique of Western pop culture’s fascination with butts. I have to say that given the cover of this book, and the title, I was expecting the book to be more…tongue in cheek? But this book isn’t that. ![]()
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