Girls gone mild
Subtitle: young women reclaim self-respect and find its not bad to be good
By: by Wendy Shalit.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9781400064731
Subjects: Young women -- Attitudes; Young women -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Young women -- Sexual behavior; Teenage girls -- Attitudes; Teenage girls -- Social conditions -- 21st century; Teenage girls -- Sexual behavior; Sexual ethics; Popular culture -- Moral and ethical aspects
Description: Drawing on firsthand interviews and dialogues with young women from around the country, examines the current prejudices in the culture against the "good" girl and offers a new set of definitive role models for the young women of the next generation.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Where we are stuck; title: The new bad-girl script and its limitations; title: It's 12am : do you know where your role models are?; title: Against repression (emotional repression, that is); title: Excuse me, ma'am, have you seen my friends?; title: Pure fashion divas; title: People-pleasing bad girls and rebellious good girls; title: Feminism's (mild) fourth wave; title: From diapers to bitches; title: and back; title: Conclusion: Who's afraid of the big bad good girl? (and why).