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A review by ambergamgee
Butts: A Backstory by Heather Radke
4.0
I found this book super interesting and well written. This cultural history of the butt is very much wrapped up in race and racism. I also appreciated the inclusion of LGBT+ communities and drag queens.
I will warn future readers that it is not entirely body-positive. At times it reads as overly critical of skinny women and women with small butts. I felt it was pretty unfair to praise one woman’s natural figure in one breath and scorn another’s in the next. The pursuit of either body is problematic if it means unhealthy eating habits, low self esteem, or fighting your natural body. Just because our society has been obsessed with too skinny does not mean those in skinny bodies are unnatural in some way.
I will warn future readers that it is not entirely body-positive. At times it reads as overly critical of skinny women and women with small butts. I felt it was pretty unfair to praise one woman’s natural figure in one breath and scorn another’s in the next. The pursuit of either body is problematic if it means unhealthy eating habits, low self esteem, or fighting your natural body. Just because our society has been obsessed with too skinny does not mean those in skinny bodies are unnatural in some way.