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Here you'll find material for additional reading as well as more complete citation information for sources mentioned in other articles on breast health. This bibliography will continue to be a work in progress. I'll add new titles as I discover them, and I'll annotate the entries as I read and evaluate the various sources.
Ayalah, Daphna and Isaac J. Weinstock. Breasts: Women Speak about Their Breasts and Their Lives. N.Y.: Summit Books, 1979. A generation ago Ayalah and Weinstock "were struck by the irony that although women's breasts are displayed everywhere in the media, images of real breasts, as they actually are in all stages of a woman's life, are almost never seen." They therefore set out to produce "a photographic catalog of the breasts of women of all ages, without makeup or special lighting effects, unretouched, and without bias toward the preconceived cultural ideal of 'beautiful breasts.'" Brumberg, Joan Jacobs. The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls. N.Y.: Random House, 1997. In this cultural and historical study Brumberg demonstrates that growing up female has changed over the last century and that the experience is more difficult today than it was in the past. She argues that modern American and western European society have removed the umbrella of societal conventions that protected Victorian girls as they grew into womanhood. Today's adolescent girls have more freedom than Victorian girls had without the safety net of conventions to shield them from the provocative sexuality that modern commercialism and peer pressure place them under. "Ultimately, this is a story about what it means to grow up in a female body, and the ways in which girlhood in America has chanaged since the nineteenth century. But it also explains how the pressures on young women have accumulated, making girls at the close of the twentieth century more anxious than ever before about their bodies and, therefore, about themselves" (pp. xxv-xxvi). Latteier, Carolyn. Breasts: The Women's Perspective on an American Obsession. New York: Harrington Park Press, 1998. Lauersen, Niels H., M.D., Ph.D., and Eileen Stukane. The Complete Book of Breast Care. N.Y.: Ballantine, 1996, rpt. 1998. "Our aim for The Complete Book of Breast Care is: to offer you the most up-to-date discoveries in preventive health care, along with the latest advancements in diagnoses and treatments, to increase your knowledge about what is going on inside your breasts, and to return to you confidence in your body ... To our knowledge, The Complete Book of Breast Care is the first women's health book to pinpoint the best breast health care information in cyberspace" (pp. 3-4).
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