A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue
- List Price: $24.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Free Press
- Publish date: 01/01/2001
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Something terrible has happened to our daughters, warns twenty-three-year-old Wendy Shalit, fresh from the firing line of American campus life. At the same time that they enjoy the right to unparalleled opportunities, today's young women have been robbed of their girlhood. With sex education beginning in grade school, university health departments advising them on oral sex techniques, and boys who assume that a sexual "hook-up" comes without any commitment, it has become almost impossible for a young woman to say "no" to sex. Those who do choose to postpone sex are labeled "repressed", and their desire for romantic love is ridiculed. Is it any wonder that young women today suffer from anorexia, bulimia, and other disorders?
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Beginning with her own experience as a college student who caused a campus uproar by objecting to coed bathrooms, Shalit reveals the shocking predicament of today's young women: little privacy, no dating scene, and a prescription for Prozac when they cannot adjust to the new, depressing regime. In her search for an answer, she explores the philosophical debate over modesty and finds that this lost virtue provides a way to make sense of a girl's natural feelings. By asserting their right to take intimacy seriously, girls can find the happiness they would otherwise be denied in a culture that has discarded the idea of feminine virtue.
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