Missing the Breast

A rich and complex book. [Richter] does nothing less than establish a �regime� of the breast�-linguistic, symbolic, political, and cultural�-that stands over against, and potentially disrupts and destabilizes, what has come to be called (following Foucault and Lacan) the regime of the phallus. . . . Written with exquisite and admirable lucidity, [Missing the Breast is] a far cry from the typica...