In 'Butts: A Backstory,' author Heather Radke gets into the politics, symbolism and history of a body part simultaneously revered and scorned.
author Heather Radke gets into the politics, symbolism and history of a body part simultaneously revered and scorned.Over the past few years, perhaps no one has spent more time thinking about butts than Heather Radke. In 2019, the writer and WNYC RadioLab reporter publishedabout the shame attached to having a large backside while she was in high school. Part of her research entailed interviewing women who had very different experiences with — and relationships to — their butts.
In the introduction, you write that “conversations about butts are almost always conversations about race.” What do you mean by that? The author and fashion historian Valerie Steele argues that diet culture was invented in the 1920s. Today, diet culture is couched with the body positivity movement. Was there any kind of self-awareness about diet culture in the ‘20s? How do you think the conversation differs today?
You cover the invention of sizing in the same conversation as the "Norma" and "Normann" eugenics sculptures, a set of “composite” statues made around the turn of the 20th century that were purported to represent the “average American male and female.” Did these statues quite literally invent the "normal" sizing that has haunted so many women throughout their lives?
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