Hypocrite in a pouffy white dress : tales of growing up groovy and clueless / Susan Jane Gilman.

By: Gilman, Susan JaneMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Warner Books, ©2005Description: xi, 352 pages ; 21 cmISBN: 0446679496; 9780446679497Subject(s): Gilman, Susan Jane -- Childhood and youth | Gilman, Susan Jane | Girls -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography | Young women -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography | Girls -- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography | Young women -- New York (N.Y.) -- Biography | New York (N.Y.) -- Biography | Geneva (Switzerland) -- Biography | New York (N.Y.) -- Biography | Geneva (Switzerland) -- BiographyDDC classification: 974.7/1043/092 | B LOC classification: CT275.G4295 | A3 2005Online resources: Table of contents
Contents:
Author's note -- Part one: Grape juice and humiliation -- Girl's guide to bragging and lying -- White like me -- Christmas trees, Jews, and virgins -- Love and the Maharishi -- Part two: not just horny, but obnoxious too -- Mick Jagger wants me -- Puberty, sex and other extreme sports -- My brilliant career -- How clever are we? -- Part three: Reality says "hello" -- Picnic at Treblinka -- I was a professional lesbian -- My father the park ranger, my mother the nun -- Your tax dollars, hard at work -- Hypocrite in a pouffy white dress -- Speak at the tuna -- Acknowledgements.
Summary: A collection of true stories by everyday women follows such remembrances as coming of age as an unfashionable white girl in an all-Puerto Rican neighborhood, experiencing embarrassment in front of a rock star, and receiving horrible mistreatment by a "feminist" boss.
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Author's note -- Part one: Grape juice and humiliation -- Girl's guide to bragging and lying -- White like me -- Christmas trees, Jews, and virgins -- Love and the Maharishi -- Part two: not just horny, but obnoxious too -- Mick Jagger wants me -- Puberty, sex and other extreme sports -- My brilliant career -- How clever are we? -- Part three: Reality says "hello" -- Picnic at Treblinka -- I was a professional lesbian -- My father the park ranger, my mother the nun -- Your tax dollars, hard at work -- Hypocrite in a pouffy white dress -- Speak at the tuna -- Acknowledgements.

A collection of true stories by everyday women follows such remembrances as coming of age as an unfashionable white girl in an all-Puerto Rican neighborhood, experiencing embarrassment in front of a rock star, and receiving horrible mistreatment by a "feminist" boss.

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