A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me—and You by Leslie Lehr (PDF)

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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 readers 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.

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⭐What an unexpected, and incredible, walk through the history of women’s rights! Leslie Lehr definitely did her homework in writing A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me… And You. I was delving into this book thinking I’d be reading a biography of Leslie’s life experiences in relation to her physique. Instead, I found myself engrossed in not only Leslie’s life and perspectives, but also in all the amazing facts interspersed throughout this book. Due to growing up in essentially the same era, I found so much of the information to be fascinating as it brought up a lot of memories, good and bad. While living in New Jersey, (late 1970’s, early 1980’s), my father worked for a casino in Atlantic City. Well, as Halloween approached my dad had the silly idea to borrow a real Playboy Bunny cocktail waitress outfit for my brother to wear. It, of course, didn’t fit, so I, as a tenth grader, adorned the outfit and the bunny ears. Instead of being thrown out of the high school dance, I was flocked with onlookers. Mind you, I was a quiet and shy high schooler; the type of person picked last in any team sport in gym class. The attention was welcomed, but overwhelming. Flash forward a dozen years, plus, and I’m now working in cocktails in a casino wearing a skimpy outfit very similar to what I wore as a teenager. Crazy as I could never see my daughter exploiting herself as I did. Those were the days… A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me… And You by Leslie Lehr is a book I highly recommend. It’s one of those books that’ll have you thinking long after you’ve read it!

⭐Given how many of us own breasts, women often don’t write about them outside of exchanges in the bedroom or the oncologist’s office. It is, for sure, an obvious topic, the prow of every woman’s ship, desired, useful, beautiful. But even an obvious subject benefits from a fresh approach. Behold the excellent effort from Los Angeles writer Leslie Lehr in “A Boob’s Life: How America’s Obsession Shaped Me . . . And You.”Actor Selma Hayek understood Lehr’s intentions so well that she’s preparing a series for HBO Max based on the book.Disclosure out of the gate: Leslie and I are school chums from our Columbus, Ohio, girlhood, and I have admired her writing for years. I did come to this latest book a little apprehensive about the jokey term in the title. But in reading this book, now I see my classmate is simply reminding us that we’re all baffled about our bodies, and our culture doesn’t help us.This clever volume folds together a deeply affecting personal story about Lehr and her breasts growing up, getting married, nursing babies, surviving cancer, divorcing husband No. 1, finding husband No. 2, living well. Lehr is blunt and funny in telling about reconstructive surgery leaving a breast pointing off to one side.But “A Boob’s Life” is more than an illness narrative. Lehr keenly observes the influence of recruiting breasts to sell stuff, from Playboy and beer ads and all the omnipresent manufactured imagery: “With swimsuit season ahead, magazines declared a new focus on the décolletage, one of a woman’s ‘most beautiful’ areas. … Online, beauty bloggers were posting lists of ‘boob masks’ meant not only to smooth and brighten the skin, but to lift, tone and reduce the loss of perkiness. … Oh, how I missed the days when we only worried about tan lines.”I can’t wait to see Leslie at our class reunion this year to congratulate her on this brave, intelligent book.

⭐This is a brilliant book that will move you to tears and make you laugh out loud. Putting great insight together with deep emotion is extremely difficult for any writer to pull off, but author Leslie Lehr has done it. The book begins by taking you on her personal journey as she overcomes the obstacles in her life, both large and small.But then she quickly taps into the zeitgeist better than any book in years. She effectively uses a subject, a premise, and an entirely new genre structure that together touches a nerve in a totally original way.A Boob’s Life is a comical twist on the title of the famous memoir, A Boy’s Life. It’s primarily a comedy, and a surprisingly funny one at that. It’s the story of her own life but told through the point of view of her breasts and how they affected every major stage of her life. In my opinion by doing this she accomplishes the biggest feat for a memoir – showing how hers is everywoman’s story.Not only that, she also added the genre of cultural commentary, which completely transcends the personal memoir form. She shows how America’s obsession with over-sexualizing breasts through advertising created a perfect storm of expectations of beauty and behavior that harms women.Lehr pays off all these threads and reverberates with today’s challenges faced by women by coming to a new revelation about her own feminism, an inclusionary feminism for everyone, showing that justice for women, of every appearance, is freedom for us all. That’s really something, and it’s an incredibly fun journey to go on with her.If you want something that makes you laugh, cry, and maybe think about yourself and your world in a whole new way, read this book!

⭐I enjoyed and related to this original and thought-provoking memoir and I can recommend it with enthusiasm. It’s engaging, witty, well-written, and totally of the moment.Through generously sharing her personal story, the author highlights the conflicts, ambivalence, pain and pleasure she and many women can experience in relation to their breasts, bodies and sexual identity. I was moved by her unsentimental account of her cancer experience and how she faced painful losses with maturity. I connected with her family and relationship dramas and was eager to find out what happened next.She skilfully weaves in the personal with the social and political, tracing the historical objectification and sexualisation of women’s bodies, the pressures on girls and women in American consumer culture; and the political and economic power inequalities women still experience.I think it’s not just a woman’s book, or a modern feminist book (which I might be wary of) but it also brings the male perspective too, so I will be recommending it to my husband. He’s already intrigued by the title and cover.I found it a refreshingly honest perspective. I will be interested to read more by this author.

⭐A Boob’s Life by Leslie Lehr is one of those books so successful in telling a magnificent story of one woman’s journey, at the same time powerfully representing the truth about all women and their second-class status not only in the United States but worldwide.Leslie backs up her writing about the multi-faceted history of women, finding stats that bring a timeline and clarity of the never-ending cycle of the enormity of the oppression of women.Throughout, Leslie also makes you laugh out loud again and again. She is relatable to both men and women and is a must-read for all. A Boob’s Life should go down in the annals of history and as required reading for all young adults in the academic setting.This quote by Leslie sums it up in my humble opinion: “Like any victim of Stockholm syndrome, we identified with our captors to be safe. We pretended we didn’t care until we truly didn’t.”Only men can change the world of patriarchy; it is time for men to read this book and finally stand up for the equality of their beloved women – wives, mothers, sisters, daughters…Thank you, Leslie Lehr!

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