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College Girls Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now

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ISBN-10: 0393327159

ISBN-13: 9780393327151

Edition: 2006

Authors: Lynn Peril

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The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl. A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College was a place where women found self-esteem, and yet images in popular culture reflected a lingering distrust of the educated woman. Thus such lofty cultural expressions as Sex Kittens Go to College (1960) and a raft of naughty pictorials in men's magazines. As in Pink Think, Lynn Peril combines women's history and popular culturepeppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of the…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/17/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 0.61" wide x 0.83" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Lynn Peril is a secretary and the author of Pink Think, College Girls, and Swimming in the Steno Pool. She lives in Oakland, California.