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Girl Land (2012)

by Caitlin Flanagan(Favorite Author)

2.75 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0316065986 (ISBN13: 9780316065986)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Reagan Arthur Books

review 1: Since I just had a baby girl I figured I'd get a jump on her teenage years early and read this. It's interesting and makes some clever/insightful points, but then gets weird at the end when the author (who doesn't actually have daughters, just sons) seems to advocate government censorship (?!) as the answer to the problem of girls growing up too fast with too many pressures. She also bases a lot of her observations on "research" from the diary she kept herself as a girl. I was hoping for this to have a bit more credibility. That being said, the early chapters on the invention of dating, prom, and so forth (and their effect upon adolescent girls) were worth reading.
review 2: For the most part I enjoy Caitlin Flanagan's sometimes incendiary writing, but what edi... moretor let her publish his book? The arguments, with a few exceptions, are very weak. She is obsessed with what she remembers as the halcyon days of girlhood circa 1978, complete with literary references and cultural touchstones that I too loved. Although I remember my girlhood of the era fondly, her shrill invectives against the present left me suspicious. less

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