Erotic. Maternal. Cultural. Symbolic. Medical. What are breasts? How are they imagined? And who gets to decide
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21829670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Renate Klein (0009-0002-5534-900X, University of Alberta), Gabrielle M Siegers (0000-0003-2154-0279, University of Alberta), Dorothy Woodman (University of Alberta) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 11 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Publication date | 2020-05-30 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Imaginations Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1918-8439 • E-ISSN: 1918-8439 |
| Publisher | University of Alberta Libraries (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17742/image.br.11.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W3031763693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
he three of us, each in our own way, have varied and long term relationships with breasts. Growing up, we have experienced years of watching our own bodies change before our very eyes, often mediated through the male gaze. And that changing terrain that we call our body-self continues to shift and alter, as reproduction, aging, and-for one of us-breast cancer leave their marks. Through their presence or absence, breasts are largely visual, even more so through their objectification and fragmentation in media representations and advertisements as well as medical imagery and cosmetic procedures, reconstructions, and prostheses. These visual "imagings" of our ever-changing breasts, along with their inherent fluidity and textures, prompted us to begin ongoing conversations that are occurring across a number of disciplines, including humanities, social sciences, and the arts, but also biology, oncology and medicine
Aesthetics · Art · Psychoanalysis · The Symbolic · Child and Adolescent Health · Communication · Psychology
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |