There isn't a political awareness in these magazines about issues, and much of the content is shallow and narcissistic. I often feel less insulted reading Playboy, because it's put together from the stance of a consumer who's not being consumed. In Cosmo and Glamour, it's more about sex, how to be an airbrushed, cookie-cutter object with tube top and spike heels. Cosmo feminism is all about the fun, none of the struggle. From other women.
Conversation is a major force in women's lives.
There's more talk about spirituality. Now we're into the ethics of it, how to make it meaningful. You found that middle-class white women make up the most sexually informed group. Women of all backgrounds talk to one another and support each other. They're not getting the best information or even information in schools that's as good as say, a woman from the North Shore who goes to a place like Northwestern, where they are spending thousands on safe-sex education.