Word: shalit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...slapdash anthropology of real-life dating women on both coasts. The book was meant to show that not every woman is marriage hungry, that singledom can amount to a grand old time in its own right. Recent months have also brought three books by conservative social critics, notably Wendy Shalit, arguing that no, professional pursuit and sexual gallivanting aren't good for women at all. In fact, such endeavors leave women flummoxed, dissatisfied and dead--if not in a literal Looking for Mr. Goodbar sense, then at least in a metaphoric...
...your article on Wendy Shalit's new book, which promotes a return to sexual modesty for young women [THE SEXES, March 1], you said some of the statements in the book seem naive. As a 45-year-old man, I beg to differ with you. Shalit doesn't seem naive to me. She exposes the emperor as having no clothes. Codes of conduct to prevent sexual harassment are obviously better than lawsuits after the fact. And although conservative writer Katie Roiphe complains about being "condescended to by a 23-year-old virgin," she deserves such treatment. The younger generation...
Surely your photograph of Shalit was intended to evoke titters, as it shows her reclining on a sofa, the defender of feminine modesty happily fondling her pussycat Milton (for Friedman), thereby doubly prim about love and money. I espy antifeminist symbolism. PHILIP M. RIDEOUT New York City...
...Shalit longs for all sorts of corseted restraints. She wants policemen to stop her if she smooches in public, and society to "young lady" her, as in, "Young lady, what are you doing?" But do grown women really want to be young ladied? Karen Lehrman, author of The Lipstick Proviso, agrees that women want courting and less coarseness, but not a staid modesty. "I think a better word is elegance," she says, pointing to Lauren Bacall and Grace Kelly in their subtle but steely glory. Now there's something worth returning...
TAMALA M. EDWARDS indiscriminately reads highbrow opinion journals and lowbrow women's magazines alike. In the past month she has written on subjects ranging from Bill Bradley's campaign for President to Gwyneth Paltrow's hair extensions. This week she looks at some of the issues surrounding Wendy Shalit's A Return to Modesty, an essay that urges women to empower themselves through modesty and "lost virtue." As part of the book's target audience, Edwards feels strongly ambivalent: "You want to be courted, but you're raised to be independent. The book really pulls you in opposite directions." Edwards...