A return to modesty
Subtitle: discovering the lost virtue
By: Wendy Shalit
Edition: 1st Touchstone ed.
Publisher: Touchstone
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780684863177
Copyright date: 1999
Subjects: Jewish women; Modesty; Conduct of life; Sexual ethics for women; Sexual behavior; Women
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-278) and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one : The problem.; title: The war on embarrassment; title: Postmodern sexual etiquette, from hook-up to checkup; title: The fallout; title: New perversions; title: Part two : The forgotten ideal.; title: Forgiving modesty; title: The great deception; title: Can modesty be natural?; title: Male character; title: Part three : The return.; title: Against the curing of womanhood; title: Modesty and the erotic; title: Pining for interference; title: Beyond modernity; title: A modest conclusion : Innocence; title: Appendix : Some modest advice