"Breasts are a scandal because they shatter the border between motherhood and sexuality. Nipples are taboo because they are quite literally, physically, functionally undecidable in the split between motherhood and sexuality. One of the most subversive things feminism can do is affirm this undecidability of motherhood and sexuality."
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Iris Marion Young, "Breasted Experience", Throwing Like a Girl and Other Essays in Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory (1990), p. 199
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