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Title: The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order by Marcelle Karp, Debbie Stoller ISBN: 0-14-027774-9 Publisher: Penguin Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (30 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Not Perfect, But Oh, So Tasty
Comment: Filled with ruminations on everything from Mom, to Cosmo, to men, to makeup, this book contains at least one essay that will make a woman in her 20's or early 30's go, "Aha, I've been there!" or at least "Aha, I remember that show, book, album, etc."! While not every single piece struck exactly at the heart of the issue with hard-hitting, fact-based journalism, I didn't want them to. It was fun to sit on the couch with a pizza, reading aloud, reading under the covers, reading at work. In fact, my main disappointment was that I finished all 288 pages in under three days. Like the editors' inspiration, Sassy magazine, these gals include just the right amount of inside jokes, pop culture references, and silly slang without sending the usually cynical reader retching with the cuteness of it. BUST girls - UNITE!
Rating: 5
Summary: True Gen X Feminism
Comment: This book ROCKS! I haven't connected this strongly with a book since, "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?" Obviously, it's been a while. I had never read Bust Magazine and the book was recommended to me by a truly hip, grrl friendly, Bustboy, guy friend of mine. These girls got it goin on! This is a must read for all women who want to know themselves and the sisterhood and all men who want to know women. Can't wait to see what Marcelle and Debbie and all the other fab writers do next. And, BTW, where are all the other women reading this book? Recommend this book to your friends, but especially buy this book for your daughters.
Rating: 2
Summary: one-dimensional and self-obsessed.
Comment: The appeal of "The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order" is jarringly similar that of the vapid glossy fashion magazines Bust's writers love to hate (and occasionally work for): It is easy reading, taut with unresolved ethical and philosophical paradoxes, and intercut with rather feeble attempts at insight and actual journalism.
This is not to say it isn't entertaining. It is, most of the time. The prose is not bogged down with complicated ideas or long words. It is light and easy reading, the kind one does before bed, allowing simplicity to tickle the brain into slumber.
Bust's core philosophy is very simple: Anything I like and find pleasurable is feminist and right and empowering. Because of this philosophy, it is unnecessary for any of the essays to examine why something may be wrong or negative or unfeminist or contradictory. It is an intoxicating atmosphere of stubborn self-righteousness and self-worship, but ultimately, it is completely devoid of any real feminist discussion or philosophy. The essays drop names like Susan Faludi and Naomi Wolf and Camille Paglia, but fall far short of posessing any of the virulence, thoughtfulness, intellect and linguistic prowess of the work of those authors.
Ultimately, "The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order" is probably a good introduction to feminism for the novice--especially young teenage girls, as the juvenille writing tends to read as if it could have been ripped out the diary any given 14 year old girl. But for anyone who is well-aquainted with the subject matter, it is going to feel self-indulgent, shallow, and amateur, kind of a "Chicken Soup for the Feminist Soul."
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Title: Manifesta: Young Women, Feminism, and the Future by Jennifer Baumgardner, Amy Richards ISBN: 0374526222 Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: A Girl's Guide to Taking over the World: Writings from the Girl Zine Revolution by Tristan Taormino, Karen Green, St Martins Pr ISBN: 0312155352 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Slut! Growing Up Female with a Bad Reputation by Leora Tanenbaum ISBN: 0060957409 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: To Be Real: Telling the Truth and Changing the Face of Feminism by Rebecca Walker ISBN: 0385472625 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Listen Up 2 Ed: Voices from the Next Feminist Generation by Barbara Findlen ISBN: 1580050549 Publisher: Seal Press (WA) Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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