Memoirs of an ex-prom queen
Subtitle: a novel.
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1972
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Women -- United States -- Psychology -- Fiction.; Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction.; Beauty, Personal -- Fiction.; Aging -- Fiction.
Description: A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class, Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, the novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo but which were ultimately accepted as matters of major political significance: sexual harassment, job discrimination, the sexual double standard, rape, abortion restrictions, the double binds of marriage and motherhood, and the frantic quest for beauty. The book went on to sell more than a million copies and is regarded today as a classic, one of the first and best pieces of fiction born of the women's liberation movement. --Amazon.com.