Bad girls go everywhere

the life of Helen Gurley Brown

By Scanlon, Jennifer

Publishers Summary:
"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.

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ISBN
978-0-19534-205-5
Publisher
Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2009.


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Library Journal

Reviewed on April 1, 2009

In the early second-wave feminism of the 1960s, Helen Gurley Brown made it her mission to argue that "good" girls were independent, hard-working, successful, and perfectly happy not being wives or mothers, instead enjoying casual sex, wearing make-up and high heels, and receiving expensive gifts from their lovers, some of whom may be married to others. Scanlon (gende...Log In or Sign Up to Read More

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