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A Boob's Life
A Boob's Life: How America's Obsession Shaped Me—and You | Leslie Lehr
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A Boob’s Life explores the surprising truth about women’s most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts—or loves them. Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She’s gone from size AA to DDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she’s not alone—these are classic life stages for women today. At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob’s Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women’s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America’s obsession with the female form has affected her own life’s journey and the psyche of all women today. From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr’s life-long passion. A Boob’s Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking readers on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you’ll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.
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BookNAround
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Lehr‘s memoir mixed with history, female body politics, and social expectations is informative and interesting but also infuriating (both for what she personally went through and for the lack of major progress until today). It‘s an eye opening read, well researched, and emotional. Full review at http://booknaround.blogspot.com/2023/10/review-boobs-life-by-leslie-lehr.html?m=...

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KathyWheeler
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I‘m ambivalent about this book. The author is around my age, and I was frankly appalled at how obsessed she and the people she grew up with are with breasts. This book is memoir/cultural history but leans more toward memoir. Lehr is full of contradictions; she‘s obsessed with breasts, gets implants, but is not supportive when her 21 year old daughter wants the same? The most affecting chapters were the ones that dealt with her breast cancer.

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BookNAround
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I‘m circling back and trying to read the books I set aside and a friend‘s MIL was super curious about this one so I‘m going to get it finished to pass along to her.

KathyWheeler Well, why not. I read a book about butts. I‘ll try this one as well. It looks interesting. 7mo
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Ellohcin
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Linsy I've been cusious about this one! 2y
Ellohcin @Linsy I just finished it and I really love it. I learned a lot too. 2y
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