Endorsement from Dr. Mayim Bialik, department of neuroscience at UCLA (former Blossom star)
Girls Gone Mild is a work of art. Wendy Shalit single-handedly transforms the way we view sexuality, and she is outrageously right-on. This is a book celebrating what women truly are and can be: loved, loving, strong, and complex. Shalit gives voice to the yearning of millions of women to be truly free from the bondage of misinterpreted feminism. Shalit is a woman of high intellect, yet her arguments are witty, hip and logically presented (and she is also truly very funny!) making Girls Gone Mild accessible and profound for young and mature reader alike. ...
Shalit Interviewed on Good Morning America
Read the follow-up story on abcnews.com.
Author Wendy Shalit reports from the front-lines of the sexual counter-revolution and shatters our misconceptions of the "good girl" in her latest book, Girls Gone Mild (Random House).
About the Author
Wendy Shalit was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and received her Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Williams College in 1997. Her essays have appeared in Commentary, Slate, and the Wall Street Journal. Read More
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What Makes This Book Different
- Based on over 100 in-depth interviews the author conducted with young women, ages 12 to 28 ...
- Shalit advocates returning to a single high standard for women and for men ...
- Girls Gone Mild challenges us to rethink the entire way we approach sexuality...
- Society's new expectation that girls be "bad" is much more oppressive than the old expectation that girls be good, Shalit argues ...
- We hear from the youngest feminists who are more likely to want to fight pornography than to star in it ...
- Shalit documents how adults are advocating the "bitch" as an "empowering" ideal, and how young women are damaged by it ...
- This book contains great advice from teens who are real leaders, and are personally happy and successful ...
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"Well-meaning experts and parents say that they understand kids' wanting to be 'bad' instead of 'good.' Yet this reversal of adults' expectations is often experienced not as a gift of freedom but a new kind of oppression."
-- From Girls Gone Mild
-- From Girls Gone Mild