Synopsis Wendy Shalit, author of the controversial A RETURN TO MODESTY has now written GIRLS GONE MILD: YOUNG WOMEN RECLAIM SELF-RESPECT AND FIND IT'S NOT BAD TO BE GOOD, a plea for sexual restraint in the face of a highly sexualized society, which she describes in shocking anecdotes. Shalit is concerned about the pressures on young women to gain early, premarital sexual experience. And she includes the so-called third-wave feminists in her indictment of rap lyrics and the mass media as a whole. Third-wave feminists react against the second-wave feminists of the 1960s and 1970s, whose political program resulted in legal gains for women, but who were seen by some as too doctrinaire. These younger women make room for individual choices, including sexual ones, and individual empowerment, even when these choices are contradictory. Shalit believes there is another group of young women who are oppressed by hypersexualized media and dress. To support them she started an online forum, ModestyZone.net. This book will find an audience among those concerned with the loss of "family values."
| Details | | Publication Date: | 2007-06-05 |
| Size | | Length: | 224 pages | | Height: | 9.5 in | | Width: | 6.8 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 20.0 oz |
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