A Return to Modesty : Discovering the Lost Virtue

Shalit, Wendy

ISBN 10: 0684863170 ISBN 13: 9780684863177

Published by Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, New York, Ny, U. S. A., 2000

Language: English

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A Return to Modesty : Discovering the Lost Virtue

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Simon & Schuster Trade Paperbacks, New York, Ny, U. S. A.

Publication Date

2000

Language

English

ISBN 10

0684863170

ISBN 13

9780684863177

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Trade Paperback

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First Edition.

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At the same time that young women today enjoy the right to unparalleled opportunities, Wendy Shalit argues, there has been a marked increase in sexual harrassment and date-rape. With sex education beginning at school and sexual promisicuity encouraged in the media and at college, it has become almost impossible for a young woman to say 'no' to sex. Those who do are labelled 'repressed' and their desire for romantic love is ridiculed. Is it any wonder that young women today suffer from anorexia, bulimia, and other disorders? In A RETURN TO MODESTY Shalit explores the philosophical debate over modesty and knocks down the accompanying myths one by one. Female modesty is not about a 'sexual double standard', as is often thought, but is related to male virtue and honour. Modesty is not a social construct, but a natural response. And modesty is not prudery, but a way to preserve a sense of the erotic in our lives. By asserting their right to take intimacy seriously, girls can find the happiness they would otherwise be denied in a culture that has discarded the idea of feminine virtue.

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Wendy Shalit received her B.A. in philosophy from Williams College in 1997. A contributing editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal, she has written for The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, and other publications. She lives in New York City.

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