Missing the Breast: Gender, Fantasy, and the Body in the German Enlightenment

by Simon Richter

The cult of the female breast in contemporary American and European society is as pervasive as it is notorious. Our current fascination merely updates a long-standing obsession with the breast, which over the past twenty years has also become a subject of scholarly attention. Most historians and cultural theorists have focused on England and France, with virtually all research starting from the simple assumption that the breast is a signifier of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295986115
• ISBN13: 9780295986111
• Release Date: September 2006
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.2"