College girls : bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now / Lynn Peril.
From her first appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest, the college girl has attracted criticism, advice, and regulation from her elders--not to mention some enduring images in popular culture. Is she a geek in glasses? Or a s...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
W.W. Norton & Co.,
c2006.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| Summary: | From her first appearance in the mid-nineteenth century, when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest, the college girl has attracted criticism, advice, and regulation from her elders--not to mention some enduring images in popular culture. Is she a geek in glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This book brings together women's history and popular culture in a readable blend of information, insight and humor, peppered with photographs and other femoribilia from the turn of the twentieth century through the 1970s.--From publisher description. |
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| Physical Description: | 408 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [399]-404). |
| ISBN: | 0393327159 (pbk.) 9780393327151 (pbk.) |