'Excellent' - Economist Most women in the developed world are dissatisfied with their
breasts. They dismiss them as silly boobs lament their less-than-ideal forms or renounce
thinking about them altogether. Why is this emblem of womanhood so often derided and maligned?
Tits Up investigates breasts through the eyes and lives of women experts. It explores the
truths of mammary glands from strip clubs to operating rooms human milk banks and bra
designers' studios. With refreshing optimism Thornton unmasks the sexism behind the perceived
profanity of breasts and hopes to liberate them from centuries of patriarchal prejudice.
'Will make any woman reconsider her body and any man reconsider how he treats the bodies of
the women in his life' - Independent ' Tits Up asks readers to reimagine the bosom . . . as
a site of empowerment and even divinity' - New York Times
