College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393327151)

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 culture--peppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970s--in an intelligent and witty study of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially controversial step toward educational equity.

Author: Lynn Peril
ISBN-10: 0393327159
ISBN-13: 9780393327151
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 08/17/2006
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.12h x 6.24w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 05/29/2006 pg. 49
Booklist 07/01/2006 pg. 14
New York Times 10/01/2006 pg. 15
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2006 pg. 241