Lynn Peril: 3 books

Book cover of Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office
by Lynn Peril
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2011

Feed your boss’s ego. Dress for success. And don’t let your heels trip you up on the corporate ladder. Millions of women have held the position of secretary, alternately lauded as a breakthrough opportunity and excoriated as dead-end busy work. From the female pioneers who infiltrated Capitol...
Book cover of College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now
by Lynn Peril
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006

The author of Pink Think takes on a twentieth-century icon: the college girl. A geek who wears glasses? Or a sex kitten in a teddy? This is the dual vision of the college girl, the unique American archetype born when the age-old conflict over educating women was finally laid to rest. College...
Book cover of Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons
by Lynn Peril
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2002

From board games to beauty pageants, a smart, witty, pop-culture history of the perilous path to achieving the feminine ideal. Deluged by persuasive advertisements and meticulous (though often misguided) advice experts, women from the 1940s to the 1970s were coaxed to "think pink"...
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