I think that can make us all feel very bad, and that’s kind of where it’s gone.īut there’s this other way you can go with it, which is like, isn’t that kind of fun and funny and amazing that our bodies do that for us? They let us be specific and weird and different, and if we could celebrate that and be excited about it, that would actually be kind of profound. All of our bodies are specific and strange, and the desire to fit them into racial categories or into size categories or to manage them, to make them knowable in this industrial-age way-they won’t let us! Our bodies just will not let us do that. They’re not going to let us be interchangeable parts on a car. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Butts: A Backstory. Download it once and read it on your Kindle device, PC, phones or tablets. The book’s introduction is weak and gratuitous. She’s smart about social history but falters when she gets personal, indulging feelings about her own rear and dating history that add little beyond dulling her feminist and modern take. One of the things I really loved when I was talking to this woman, Abigail, who helped me to understand all that stuff about sizing, she said this thing, “bodies are unruly.” I loved that. Butts: A Backstory - Kindle edition by Radke, Heather. Radke proves a witty, incisive observer, particularly when she steers clear of academic jargon.
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