by Lynn Peril
On Sale: $11.30 (Was $16.95)
408 pages
ISBN-10: 0393327159
ISBN-13: 9780393327151
Publisher: W.W.Norton
Non-Returnable
The author of Pink Think takes on a 20th-century icon: the college girl. 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 20th century through the 1970s -- in an intelligent and witty study. A fair number of images (b&w).
