Butts: A Backstory

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"Lively and thorough, Butts is the best kind of nonfiction—the kind that forces you to see something ordinary through completely new eyes." —Esquire, Best Books of 2022 So Far
"One of the year's most ingenious and eye-opening cultural studies." —Publishers Weekly, Best Books of 2022
Whether we love them or hate them, think they're sexy, think they're strange, consider them too big, too small, or anywhere in between, humans have a complicated relationship with butts. It is a body part unique to humans, critical to our evolution and survival, and yet it has come to signify so much more: sex, desire, comedy, shame. A woman's butt, in particular, is forever being assessed, criticized, and objectified, from anxious self-examinations trying on jeans in department store dressing rooms to enduring crass remarks...