Breasted Bodies as Pedagogies of Excess: Towards a Materialist Theory of Becoming M/other

Women’s breasts are invested with social, cultural, and political meanings that shape the ways we make sense of, experience, and materialize our embodied selves. Breasts can be highly prized objects of sexual desire and/or markers of the monstrous, harassment, and shame, thus compelling women to experience their breasted bodies in confusing and contradictory ways. Large breasts further complicate this ambivalence given the social and cultural …