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Lynn Peril takes on a twentieth-century American icon: the college girl. The dual vision of the American archetype - a geek in glasses or a sex kitten in a teddy - was born when the age-old conflict over educating women was 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. Peril combines women's history and popular culture - peppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century to the 1980s - in an intelligent and witty study of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially controversial step towards educational equity. This is a paperback original.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social groups

• Full title: College Girls
• Subtitle: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens and Co-Eds, Then and Now
• Author: Lynn Peril
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352
• EAN: 9780393327151
• ID: 04604353
• Publisher: W W NORTON & CO
• Weight: 520 g
• Dimensions: 207 × 155 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 10. October 2006

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