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...women's self-esteem, men can't help feeling about Oprah the same way that gold investors felt about William Jennings Bryan. She's just not looking out for our best interests. The only men who will suffer from Oprah not being on the air are Wally Lamb and Stedman Graham...
...Sharon Lamb...
...Secret Lives of Girls, Sharon Lamb urges her readers to reevaluate what they consider to be “normal.” In Lamb’s view, most Americans need to shift from thinking that a young girl’s sexual and aggressive expressions are “bad” to categorizing such behavior as, simply, what all girls do. Lamb claims that a large percentage of young girls in America feel that they are leading double lives, pretending to be sweet and innocent while secretly engaging in sexual play and aggressive acts that are traditionally...
...study, Lamb interviewed over 100 women and girls of varying ethnicities from all over the country in an effort to demonstrate that all girls share in this fantasy life. In her analysis of the girls’ feelings, Lamb holds up traditional social norms in order to disprove them. However, she succeeds only in replacing the old clichés with newer ones...
...young girls may be “secret” in that the girls did not discuss them before they were interviewed for Lamb’s book, but it is hardly shocking to the modern reader that young girls masturbate or are curious about boys’ bodies. Lamb seems occasionally to assume that the feelings of repression voiced by the older women she interviewed are also applicable to the younger generation. As a result, she fails to convince her readers that the social norms that she aims to dismantle are actually present in contemporary American culture...