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Tits Up

The Top Half of Women’s Liberation
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Excellent - Economist Most women in the developed world are dissatisfied with their breasts. They dismiss them as silly boobs, lament their less-than-ideal forms, or renounce thinking about them altogether. Why is this emblem of womanhood so often derided and maligned? Tits Up investigates breasts through... Read More
Format: Paperback / softback
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Tits Up

A fascinating, wide-ranging and hugely readable biography of of the breast: think The Vagina Monologues meets Invisible Women with a sprinkling of The History of Art Without Men.

A fascinating, wide-ranging and hugely readable biography of of the breast: think The Vagina Monologues meets Invisible Women with a sprinkling of The History of Art Without Men. Now in B format.

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Excellent - Economist

Most women in the developed world are dissatisfied with their breasts. They dismiss them as silly boobs, lament their less-than-ideal forms, or renounce thinking about them altogether. Why is this emblem of womanhood so often derided and maligned?

Tits Up investigates breasts through the eyes and lives of women experts. It explores the truths of mammary glands, from strip clubs to operating rooms, human milk banks, and bra designers' studios. With refreshing optimism, Thornton unmasks the sexism behind the perceived profanity of breasts and hopes to liberate them from centuries of patriarchal prejudice.

Will make any woman reconsider her body, and any man reconsider how he treats the bodies of the women in his life - Independent

Tits Up asks readers to reimagine the bosom... as a site of empowerment and even divinity - New York Times

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781035053933

Publisher: Pan Macmillan

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 12 June 2025

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Bluebird

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 34.0mm

Width: 130.0mm

Height: 197.0mm

Weight: 628g

Pages: 336

About the Author

Sarah Thornton is a sociologist who writes about art, design and people. Formerly the chief art market correspondent for The Economist, she is the author of three previous books. Her second, Seven Days in the Art World was an international bestseller, published in eighteen languages, and named one of the best art books of the year by the New York Times. A Canadian who went to the UK on a prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship, Thornton was once hailed as "Britain's hippest academic" and is now based in San Francisco.

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