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College girls : bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now / Lynn Peril.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Peril, Lynn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women college students--United States--Attitudes.
- Women college students.
- Women--United States--Identity.
- Women.
- Women--Education (Higher)--United States.
- Women--Education (Higher).
- History.
- Identity (Philosophical concept).
- United States.
- Women college students--United States--History--20th century.
- Education, Higher--United States--History--20th century.
- Education, Higher.
- Physical Description:
- 408 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., [2006]
- Summary:
- 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 of the college girl, the first woman to take that socially controversial step toward educational equity. 75 illustrations.
- Contents:
- Introduction: from bluestockings to sex kittens
- The birth of the college girl
- New girl on campus
- The collegiate look
- In loco parentis and other campus rules
- Book smart or house wise? What to study
- Fit in mind and body
- Sex ed and husband hunting
- Graduation and after
- Epilogue: since then.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [399]-404).
- ISBN:
- 0393327159
- OCLC:
- 70122455
- Publisher Number:
- 9780393327151
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