Bad Girls Go Everywhere The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine

Name: Bad Girls Go Everywhere The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine
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ISBN: 9780143118121

ISBN-10: 0143118129

ISBN-13: 9780143118121

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Authors: Jennifer Scanlon

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"Scanlon's shrewed biography reveals a woman of contraditions...a strategically racy cultural pioneer." -"O, The Oprah Magazine" As the author of the revolutionary "Sex and the Single Girl" and the longtime editor-in-chief of "Cosmopolitan" magazine, Helen Gurley Brown changed how women thought about sex, money, and their bodies in a way that resonates in our culture today. In Jennifer Scanlon's widely acclaimed biography, the award-winning scholar related Brown's escape from her humble beginnings in the Ozarks to her eyebrow- raising exploits as a young woman in New York, and her late-blooming career as the world's first "lipstick feminist." A mesmerizing look at an often overlooked…

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List price: $24.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 8/31/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.35" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.594



Preface



Growing Up Gurley, and a Girl



Work Life, Romantic Entanglements



David Brown



Sex and the Single Girl



Sensationalist Literature and Expert Advice: Selling Sex and the Single Girl



Sexy From the Start: The Early Years of Second-Wave Feminism



Packaging a Message-and a Messenger



Normal Like Me: The Single Girl on Television



Good Girls go to Heaven-Bad Girls go Everywhere: Helen Gurley Brown's Cosmopolitan



Sexual Liberation on Whose Terms?: Defining the Second Wave



Aging, Resisting, Redefining



An Editor Steps Down, Reluctantly


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index