Across the country, there's a youth-led rebellion challenging the
status quo. In Seattle and Pittsburgh, teenage girls protest
against companies that sell sleazy clothing. Online, a
nineteen-year-old describes her struggles with her mother, who she
feels is pressuring her to lose her virginity. In a small town
outside Philadelphia, an eleventh-grade girl, upset over a "dirty
book" read aloud in English class, takes her case to the school
board. These are not your mother's rebels.
Drawing on numerous studies and interviews, the brilliant Wendy
Shalit makes the case that today's virulent "bad girl" mindset
truly oppresses young women. She reveals how the media, one's
peers, and even parents can undermine girls' quests for their
authentic selves, and explains what it means to break from the herd
mentality and choose integrity over popularity. Written with
sincerity and upbeat humor, "The Good Girl Revolution "rescues the
good girl from the realm of mythology and old manners guides to
show that today's version is the real rebel. Society may perceive
the good girl as "mild," but Shalit demonstrates that she is in
fact the opposite. The new female role models are not "people
pleasing" or repressed; they are outspoken and reclaiming their
individuality. These empowering stories are sure to be an
inspiration to teenagers and parents alike. Join the conversation
at www.thegoodgirlrevolution.com
Praise for "The Good Girl Revolution"
"[Shalit's] conviction . . . will resonate with and bolster many
parents."
"-Publishers Weekly"
"Shalit marshals her evidence with the diligence of a trial lawyer.
. . . [She] does not preach; she merely reports on the pockets of
girls who aretaking back their innocence."
"-The Globe and Mail"
"[Shalit is] a passionate defender of modesty and chastity-and [she
is also] provocative and rebellious."
"-Toronto Star"
"[Shalit is] a prodigy at cracking the codes of culture."
"-Newsweek"
"Stands out . . . in its championing of 'new role models' . . . who
are taking a stand against the excesses of the Sexual
Revolution."
-"The Washington Times"
"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 is a woman of high intellect, yet her arguments
are witty, hip and logically presented (and she is also truly very
funny!) making this book accessible and profound for the young and
mature reader alike."
--Dr. Mayim Bialik, neuroscientist at UCLA and former "Blossom"
star
"When Wendy Shalit wrote "A Return To Modesty" in 1999, she knew
which way the cultural winds were blowing. Since that time, the
sleaze factor in our culture has worsened in ways about which
numbers of people now express dismay. But in this book, Wendy
Shalit has documented voices of real girls who are raising
important questions about the culture around them. Many of these
individual girls are taking action to counter this prevailing
culture--putting a new slant on counter-cultural! "The Good Girl
Revolution" profiles girls and young women who think for
themselves. They are proud of who and what they are, and are making
the choices that will allow them to continue to feel this
way."
--Dr. Patricia Dalton, clinical psychologist in practice in
Washington, D.C.
"Here we are, decades after the feminist revolution, and yet crude
self-display - of a kind that makes the daring of the 1960s seem
quaint - is considered something that a "normal" college girl might
eagerly choose to do for a stranger with a camera and a release
form. What is going on? "We continually malign the good girl as
'repressed, '" notes Wendy Shalit, "while the bad girl is (wrongly)
perceived as intrinsically expressing her individuality and somehow
proving her sexuality."
-"The Wall Street Journal," reviewed by Pia Catton
"Even-tempered, sweetly reasonable, and full of pleasing glints of
dry wit. . . an intelligent, illuminating, and unexpectedly
optimistic book about those young women who have chosen to opt out
of the revolution."
-"Contentions," reviewed by Terry Teachout
"Charming, moving, sometimes heartbreaking...brave and wonderful."
--"Commentary
"
." . .throws into detailed, sickening relief the actual content the
average girl in North America is subjected to from birth onwards in
the determination to make her "bad." . . A solid researcher, citing
wide-ranging statistical, professional and anecdotal testimony,
Shalit builds a persuasive case for promiscuity's harsher toll on
women than men."
-"The National Post," reviewed by Barbara Kay
"The culture has not yet carved out a space for women to indulge
their own fantasies rather than to fulfill those of men. Feminism
has not finished its job; a version of nonmushy, nonmarital sex
that makes women feel good about themselves is still hard to
achieve. Yet as a feminist, it's hard for me to concede these
things to Shalit. . . ."
-"The Nation," reviewed by Nona Willis-Aronowitz
"Shalit believes that too many girls and women have been denied a
happy ending because, post-sexual revolution, we now believe it's
good to be bad. . . .To make her point, Shalit roves through the
bordello of popular culture, sweeping up unpleasant bits of
evidence. She begins with Bratz dolls, a scantily clad line of
playthings aimed at young girls, and goes as far as the "Girls Gone
Wild" phenomenon, in which young women who ought to know better get
drunk and take off their clothes and make lots of money for
ungentlemanly types who sell videotapes of them. . . Shalit tells
me to take heart, though, because there's a new sexual revolution
a-brewing -- one in which sex is supposed to be a meaningful act
between two people who actually care about each other. It's
tempting to mock her, but what's so silly about the idea of
self-respect and finding one's soul mate? Nothing, even if you're
more the 'Sex and the City' type than the virgin-till-marriage
type."
--"Washington Post Book World," reviewed by Jennifer Howard
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