Florence Williams is a contributing editor at ‘Outside’ magazine, and her articles and essays have been widely anthologized. ‘Breasts’ was named a finalist for the 2011 Columbia/Nieman Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Williams lives in Boulder, Colorado.
*Starred Review* In her exceptional history, science journalist Williams does more to enlighten us on the virtues of, workings of, and perils to women’s breasts than anyone ever has before, notwithstanding the efforts of the three H’s: Hooters, Hefner, and Hughes (Howard, inventor of the cantilever bra). And she does it with smarts, sass, and intent. Her book can be characterized as an exposé because it unveils the scandalously scanty amount of research devoted to those that define the very essence of the human race. To be sure, Williams covers all the cultural and anthropological information that the mostly male scientific—and not-so-scientific—community has gathered about what is euphemistically referred to as second base. And she goes much further, elucidating the primary purpose of the female breast and how breasts alter at each stage of a woman’s life, then venturing into breast enlargements, the chemistry of breast milk, how breasts are evolving, and how little we know about the effects of environmental toxins and the rise in breast cancer. Meant to nurture the next generation for life on planet earth, breasts are also humanity’s first responders to environmental changes. And what have modern-day chemical exposures wrought? The answers to this question and many more are found in Williams’ remarkably informative and compelling work of discovery. --Donna Chavez
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“Florence Williams's double-D talents as a reporter and writer lift this book high above the genre and separate it from the ranks of ordinary science writing. Breasts is illuminating, surprising, clever, important. Williams is an author to savor and look forward to.” (Mary Roach )
“Be brave, buy this book, and withstand the giggles and sniggers of your friends. For here is a wonderful history, stretching across hundreds of millions of years, of an astonishingly complex part of the human body. Williams weaves together research on nutrition, cancer, psychology, and even structural engineering to create a fascinating portrait of the breast: that singular gland that gave us, as mammals, our very name.” (Carl Zimmer, author of Parasite Rex and Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea )
“A wonderful and entertaining tour through the evolution, biology and cultural aspects of the organ that defines us as mammals!” (Susan Love, M.D., M.B.A., President of Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation )
“In her comprehensive 'environmental history' of the only human body part without its own medical specialty,…Williams focuses on the importance of understanding breasts as more than sex objects…Williams puts hard data and personal history together with humor, creating an evenhanded cautionary tale that will both amuse and appall.” (Publishers Weekly )
“Starred Review. ...exceptional history... with smarts, sass, and intent.... Meant to nurture the next generation for life on planet Earth, breasts are also humanity’s first responders to environmental changes. And what have modern-day chemical exposures wrought? The answers to this question and many more are found in Williams’ remarkably informative and compelling work of discovery.” (Booklist )
「乳房必須隨著每一次懷孕而一而再地建構和拆解,就像凱撒的軍隊在橫跨高盧的戰爭時,不斷地建造城市般的營地,再將它拆除。」 自由撰稿人弗洛倫斯·威廉姆斯長期關注環境、健康等主題,並為《紐約時報》等報刊撰稿。她的新作《乳房:一段自然與非自然的曆史》,堪稱《寂靜的...
評分非詩意的乳房保衛戰 關於乳房,曆史上有過太多詩意的描述,比如法國作傢勒南為所羅門宮廷舞女所寫的“你的乳房就像一隻圓圓的酒杯/盛滿香氣四溢的美酒”,或是民間流傳的“乳房就像黎明的月亮”,乃至哲學傢呂剋•南希所思考的“乳房無所等待,無所許諾,無所交換……乳房的...
評分這是我在2012年根據英文版(W. W. Norton & Company版本)為《深圳特區報》寫的書評: 現代社會中,女性乳房這一自然的器官擔任瞭多種角色,諸如幻想中心、文化符號、社會禁忌等等,負荷沉重,然而我們對乳房的生理作用、它對女性本身以及對下一代的正麵和負麵作用、以及環境...
評分《乳房》這本書的副標題,叫“一段自然與非自然的曆史”,自然和非自然,其實對應的就是生物和社會這兩方麵。 本期的解讀,我們就聚焦在乳房這個人體器官,主要用“自然和社會協同進化”的視角,來理解現代生活如何改變我們的乳房。 所以,首先我們會從自然及生物性的角度,看...
評分這是本科普類書籍,內容豐富、語言平實,完全意識不到這是譯本,很好理解。推薦~ 讀這本書,我時常會震驚和懷疑。乳房真的那麼脆弱,有那麼多有毒物質侵入嗎?作者用一個個數據、一個個實驗確定地迴答我:是的,環境對你身體的影響遠比你想象的要大很多。我們對於乳房的瞭解進...
以曆史的角度來談關於乳房的各種話題,當然是以疾病、早熟、環境汙染等問題為主啦。看完隻記住瞭幾個要點:1.我們已被汙染,並通過乳汁汙染下一代。2.女性早熟者女性疾病發病率高,飲食要清淡。3.男性受汙染嚴重也會得乳癌
评分以曆史的角度來談關於乳房的各種話題,當然是以疾病、早熟、環境汙染等問題為主啦。看完隻記住瞭幾個要點:1.我們已被汙染,並通過乳汁汙染下一代。2.女性早熟者女性疾病發病率高,飲食要清淡。3.男性受汙染嚴重也會得乳癌
评分前半部比較有趣, 後半太重複瞭
评分Modern medicine focuses more on ‘proven’ relationship between diseases and causes, while the book links potential threats to humans, particularly females and their offspring through lactating, with modern lifestyles and ‘improvements’ of living conditions. It also dives into future options with progresses in sciences. #Thanks to Shanghai Library
评分Modern medicine focuses more on ‘proven’ relationship between diseases and causes, while the book links potential threats to humans, particularly females and their offspring through lactating, with modern lifestyles and ‘improvements’ of living conditions. It also dives into future options with progresses in sciences. #Thanks to Shanghai Library
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