Lynn Peril
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 menâ€™s magazines.,As in ,Pink Think,, Lynn Peril combines womenâ€™s history and popular cultureâ€”peppered with delightful examples of femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970sâ€”in an intelligent and witty study of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially controversial step toward educational equity.
Nonfiction,History,Feminism,Feminism,Womens Studies,Education,Gender,Womens,Sociology,Gender,Gender Studies,North American Hi...,American History
College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now