A Boob’s Life- How America’s Obsession Shaped Me—and You - Leslie Lehr

Written by Leslie Lehr
Read by Leslie Lehr
Format: M4B
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Unabridged

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.

01 - Leslie Lehr - Opening Credits
02 - Dedication
03 - Epigraph
04 - Chapter One Obsession, 2015
05 - Why America Is Obsessed with Breasts
06 - Part One Breast Envy Girlhood
07 - Chapter Two Daddy’s Girl, 1965
08 - Bra Basics
09 - Chapter Three Live Nude Women, 1966
10 - American Women in Playboy
11 - Chapter Four History According to Breasts, 1967-1970
12 - Beauty Pageants
13 - Chapter Five Smart vs. Pretty, 1972
14 - Cheerleaders Sis Boom Breasts!
15 - Chapter Six California Girls, 1978
16 - Bare Breasts in American Film
17 - Part Two The Booby Trap Adulthood
18 - Chapter Seven From Ms. to Mom, 1983
19 - Breastfeeding Basics
20 - Chapter Eight Birthday Babe, 1997
21 - Better Boob Jokes
22 - Chapter Nine Divorce The “A” Word, 2004
23 - Emotional Abuse
24 - Chapter Ten Boob Job, 2005
25 - Breast Augmentation by the Numbers
26 - Chapter Eleven Peek-a-Boob Dating, 2006
27 - Breast Censorship
28 - Chapter Twelve Dressing for Sex, 2008
29 - Secrets of Victoria’s Secret
30 - Part Three The Breast of Everything Womanhood
31 - Chapter Thirteen Killer Boobs, 2012
32 - US Breast Cancer Statistics
33 - Chapter Fourteen Chemo Chick, 2013
34 - A Few Americans Diagnosed with Breast Cancer
35 - Chapter Fifteen How Not to Be a Role Model, 2013
36 - Breast Myths and Facts
37 - Chapter Sixteen Picasso Boobs, 2014
38 - A Few Nicknames for Breasts
39 - Chapter Seventeen The Death of Daddy’s Girl, 2016
40 - Women’s Legal Rights
41 - Chapter Eighteen Boobs “R” Us, 2017
42 - First Females
43 - Chapter Nineteen The Fourth Wave
44 - End Credits