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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. adult nonfiction/biography. ( ) I very much enjoyed this biography of Helen Gurley Brown, and didn't mind the academic tone of it at all. It reminded me of why I loved Cosmopolitan in the late 60s - early 70s, and how much Helen Gurley Brown spoke for me as a working-class secretary, while the rest of the screeching sisterhood did not. Loved you, Helen. Thank you, Jennifer Scanlon, for writing this book. This would be a great choice for an ambitious book club, because I spent a lot of time going "Yes, but..." and frustrated that there was no one around to actually discuss it with. I did read Sex and the Single Girl about a year ago, which provides some really helpful context. The academic defending-a-thesis tone of this isn't too heavy, although it leads to some distractingly odd (ivory tower?) statements (by the author, not by Brown) about things like why women dye their hair, what is a healthy daily calorie count, and what a grain elevator does. Lots of interesting cultural history and context, and I ILL'd several books from the bibliography. Love that she suggested a tv series set in an advertising agency and the studio said no one would be interested in that setting. Totally unsurprising that Cosmopolitan is currently most successful in Russia. Would have liked more explanation of why she thought college never would have worked for her. Impressive that she tried (if not very hard) to get positive pieces on abortion and homosexuality published way before their time and insisted on leaving in the career and finance columns even when reader polls said they didn't care. Useful discussions of how class privilege enables social protest, but it still seemed like Scanlon was too lenient with the whole courtesan thing, not to mention the infidelity angle. Scanlon was also surprisingly accepting of the 'universal' fear of the 'ravages of aging.' And what the heck was with the spoon bending? Now to go read the Caitlin Flanagan review in The Atlantic that's generating so much discussion.
if Helen Gurley Brown’s journey from the outhouses and tent revivals of the Ozarks into the cocktail parties and four-color closings of the Hearst Corporation can’t make a corker of a story, nothing can. Bad Girls Go Everywhere isn’t all gender studies and debate. Relevant bits of historical, and often hysterical, trivia are woven into truly fascinating anecdotes, episodes and personal facts about Helen Gurley Brown’s life, loves and longevity. Jennifer Scanlon’s triumph in this thoroughly absorbing book is to show that we are all Gurley girls, whether we like it or not. In some ways this authorship -- as well as Scanlon’s academia informed approach to the former Cosmo editor’s life -- makes Bad Girls Go Everywhere the definitive work on Gurley Brown. One can not imagine anyone exceeding it. Thirty-four pages of footnotes and a very good index tell that story. Gurley Brown is now 87, as unnaturally thin as ever, and earns $2m a year as supremo of Cosmopolitan’s international arm. And she has lived to see a rather good biography from a professor of gender studies that makes a persuasive case for this reviled Pussy Galore figure as — good heavens — a linchpin of 1970s feminism.
"The first biography of Helen Gurley Brown, author of the 1962 international bestseller Sex and the Single Girl and 32-year editor of Cosmopolitan magazine. Scanlon had unprecedented access to Brown's papers, and she presents Brown in the context of the feminist movement, highlighting her role as an advocate of professional accomplishment and sexual freedom for women"--Provided by publisher. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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