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Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History with Florence Williams

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Susun Weed interviews author Florence Williams


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Florence Williams is a visiting scholar at the University of Colorado's Journalism School, a contributing editor at Outside Magazine and a freelance writer for New York Times, the New York Times Magazine, the New Republic, Mother Jones, High Country News, National Geographic Traveler, Runner’s World, Skiing, Bicycling and numerous other publications.

Her work often focuses on the environment, health and science.

In 2007-2008, she was a Scripps Fellow at the Center of Environmental BreastsJournalism at the University of Colorado. She has received many awards, including six magazine awards from the American Society of Journalists and Authors and the John Hersey Prize at Yale. Her work has been anthologized in numerous books, including Outside 25, the New Montana Story, How the West Was Warmed and Best American Science and Nature Writing 2008.

Florence Williams is a contributing editor at Outside Magazine, and her articles and essays have been widely anthologized. BREASTS was named a finalist for the 2011 Columbia/Nierman Lukas Work-in-Progress Award. Williams lives in Boulder, Colorado.

Her latest book, Breasts: A Natural and Unnatural History, intrepid science reporter Florence Williams sets out to uncover the latest scientific findings from the fields of anthropology, biology, and medicine. Her investigation follows the life cycle of the breast from puberty to pregnancy to menopause, taking her from a plastic surgeon’s office where she learns about the importance of cup size in Texas to the laboratory where she discovers the presence of environmental toxins in her own breast milk. The result is a fascinating exploration of where breasts came from, where they have ended up, and what we can do to save them.


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