Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen (Paperback)

from ffortsa

I guess I should have read this book when I was in college - although I was already out of college when it was published in 1972. In quite engaging prose it presents the mythology of girls and women in the 1950s and 1960s, a little ahead of my own years. There were sections I had to skip if I did...

from DinadansFriend

This is an early fictional Feminist hit. While it was a popular book, I did not find it particularly striking. Perhaps by the time of reading, my world view was more in sympathy with the world's women,

from DeltaQueen50

When it was originally published in 1972, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen by Alix Shulman was considered quite shocking, as it ruthlessly exposes what it was like growing up female in middle class America. I have to admit this book made me feel very uncomfortable at times as I often recognized my you...