Description
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
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/2006
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.12h x 6.24w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780393327151
ISBN10: 0393327159
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Popular Culture
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
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 08/17/2006
Pages: 416
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 8.12h x 6.24w x 1.10d
ISBN13: 9780393327151
ISBN10: 0393327159
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
- Social Science | Popular Culture