Sarah Thornton

Oct 19, 2024 | sanantonioreport.org | Sarah Thornton

The Where I Live series aims to showcase our diverse city and region by spotlighting its many vibrant neighborhoods. Each week a local resident invites us over and lets us in on what makes their neighborhood special. Have we been to your neighborhood yet? Get in touch to share your story. If your story is selected and published, you will receive a $250 stipend. My ties to San Antonio began in 1997 when my family relocated here from Denver, Colorado for my dad’s job.

May 14, 2024 | publishersweekly.com | Sarah Thornton |Peter Hessler |Margalit Fox |Andrea Freeman

Tits Up: What Sex Workers, Milk Bankers, Plastic Surgeons, Bra Designers, and Witches Tell Us About Breasts In this fun and far-ranging account, sociologist Thornton (Seven Days in the Art World) explores the topic of women’s breasts from a female perspective—tying in multiple aesthetic, professional, and spiritual threads of analysis while eschewing the “male gaze.” Relating her own anecdotes on breastfeeding in the 1990s—when it still had a strongly taboo feeling, especially in public—and...