Her sources range from anthropological scholarship to Sir Mix-a-Lot’s "Baby Got Back," making for a vivacious blend of science and pop culture, but Butts isn’t all fun and games (even if the section about 19 th-century fart parlors is really fun). From 19th-century burlesque to the eighties aerobics craze to Kim Kardashian’s Internet-breaking backside, Radke leaves no stone unturned. This crackling cultural history melds scholarship and pop culture to arrive at a comprehensive taxonomy of the female bottom. In Butts: A Backstory, her wildly entertaining debut, Radke goes in search of the answer. But just how did we arrive at this moment in human history where women’s rear ends have become a cultural obsession? For many women, that origin story begins with their butt, that most symbolic and attention-grabbing of female body parts-always too big, too small, too flat, too flabby, too wrong. "Everyone has a different origin story for how they feel about their adult body," says journalist Heather Radke.
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