A Boob’s Life

How America’s Obsession Shaped Me...and You

De: Leslie Lehr

Narrado por: Leslie Lehr

A Boob’s Life explores the surprising truth about women’s most popular body part with vulnerable, witty frankness and true nuggets of American culture that will resonate with everyone who has breasts - or loves them.

Author Leslie Lehr wants to talk about boobs. She’s gone from size AA to DDD and everything between, from puberty to motherhood, enhancement to cancer, and beyond. And she’s not alone - these are classic life stages for women today.

At turns funny and heartbreaking, A Boob’s Life explores both the joys and hazards inherent to living in a woman’s body. Lehr deftly blends her personal narrative with national history, starting in the 1960s with the women’s liberation movement and moving to the current feminist dialogue and what it means to be a woman. Her insightful and clever writing analyzes how America’s obsession with the female form has affected her own life’s journey and the psyche of all women today.

From her prize-winning fiction to her viral New York Times Modern Love essay, exploring the challenges facing contemporary women has been Lehr’s life-long passion. A Boob’s Life, her first project since breast cancer treatment, continues this mission, taking listeners on a wildly informative, deeply personal, and utterly relatable journey. No matter your gender, you’ll never view this sexy and sacred body part the same way again.

©2021 Leslie Lehr (P)2021 Blackstone Publishing

Yes - and also nooooooo

This heteronormative part-memoir/part-social science text addresses some complex issues about the role of breasts in society. However, it lacks some editing, exists largely as a space for the author - by all accounts a traditionally attractive, privileged white woman - to air out her own guilt and biases.

Not what I thought

It’s an interesting perspective but took a long time to get to the point. I didn’t agree with everything she said but that’s the beauty of America.

Alright

started out good and informative and moved into a decent narrative then turned into a story about cancer and then ended with the author using the platform to push leftist ideologies.

I enjoy this book

the author wrote great book and narrator did awesome job tell the story and characters in book

Ended up enjoying

I was on the fence about this one - the beginning was slow and really annoyed me, but was representative of the social norms around women's sexuality at the time. The best part comes in the second half when the author confronts what is really important in her life and how it affects her daughters.