julian@deepthot.UUCP (Julian Davies) (02/28/84)
subtitled: How Girls Learn to be Women. By Sue Sharpe, Pelican books, 1976. I picked this book up last spring, and it is interesting reading. Has lots of quotes from girls and young women. Oriented to the British scene, but the most significant effects are trans-Atlantic. Surveys quite comprehensively how 'traditional' attitudes are indoctrinated from an early age in numerous ways, through media, family, society, schools, etc. However, I remarked on this to my mother later, and she said 'We knew all that 20 years and more ago.' Social change comes slowly.