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Beyond the many facets of a woman's experience of having breasts, it is obvious from the sampling presented in the book that all too many women have been oppressed by our cultural attitudes toward breasts, and are often damaged psychologically and even physically. Because of this unhealthy circumstance, clearly there is a need to study the subject in greater depth and provide some analysis which can help women by furthering the consciousness-raising process which this book hopefully has begun.
Although Spadola published her book almost 20 years after Ayalah and Weinstock published theirs, these passages (except for the 1970s jargon) could apply to her book as well. Sadly, this is an area in which American culture has apparently made little progress over the last generation.
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