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Rack: Women Write about Their Breasts

From Venus de Milo’s chiseled cleavage to Janet Jackson’s notorious SuperBowl “wardrobe malfunction,” women’s breasts have long served as catalysts for cultural criticism, wonder, and infatuation. In a nation where a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes and teenage girls receive breast augmentations as graduation gifts from their parents, it is impossible not to wonder -- How do women truly feel about their breasts?

Rack: Women Write about Their Breasts will aim to explore this question by going right to the source and sharing the stories of women who have had extraordinary and ordinary experiences with their bust-lines. In order to complete this unique anthology, the editor is seeking well-crafted personal essays on a wide range of breast-related experiences and issues. Each unique non-fiction piece in this anthology should shed its own light on the moving, confusing, and often hilaious experience of having breasts; diverse and unique perspectives are encouraged. Submissions should be strong, developed, first-person accounts that don’t tell your breasts’ entire life story, but instead highlight a specific moment, experience, or process that made a significant impact on your life. Thematically, essays should address the question -- In a world of plastic surgery, piercing, and porn stars, how do we, as women, learn to love, lose, and eventually accept our breasts?

# posted by Gerry Canavan @ 9:05 PM  |