It is largely the cultural analysis of Twitter 2022, grafted onto whatever historical pivot point or social phenomena she is talking about. The pop culture analysis-which I largely agreed with-tended to be repetitive or superficial. In 2022, if you don't have you head in your own aforementioned butt, you are likely aware already that fitness programs can tend to focus on bodily sculpting instead of holistic health, or that the illusions of modeling (and now Instagram) can create unrealistic expectations for young women. I am largely familiar with the shifts of the last sixty years, and chapters on the Flappers or European history were more engaging to me, personally. I actually craved more historical analysis to understand how our collective opinion of the butt has mutated over the years. I am not sure there is enough room for all of this, which Radke acknowledges early on, trying to get ahead of the problem by saying her work does not claim to be an exhaustive history or political analysis of the butt. Radke is certainly ambitious, melding history, personal anecdotes, scholarly research, feminist political frameworks, and plenty of pop culture, all in a relatively short work. This is a fun book, which is not a descriptor usually at the forefront of a nonfiction work. Butts! Can't live without them, can't live without them!
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