Full name: College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-Eds, Then and Now

Author: Lynn Peril Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, History, Feminism, Education Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393327151 0393327159

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. Similar books: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich When Everything Changed by Gail Collins Bachelor Girl by Betsy Israel For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich Who Cooked the Last Supper? by Rosalind Miles The Body Project by Joan Jacobs Brumberg Pink Think by Lynn Peril Misogyny by Jack Holland All the Single Ladies by Rebecca Traister America's Women by Gail Collins The Creation of Patriarchy by Gerda Lerner Sisterhood, Interrupted by Deborah Siegel Bygone Badass Broads by Mackenzi Lee Virgin by Hanne Blank Enlightened Sexism by Susan J. Douglas The Girls Who Went Away by Ann Fessler Demonic Grounds by Katherine McKittrick When and Where I Enter by Paula Giddings Marriage, a History by Stephanie Coontz Black Women in White America by Gerda Lerner