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The Great Cover-Up

Can High Necklines Cure Low Morals?

Article by Shira Tarrant, Illustrated by Liza Corbett, appeared in issue Lost & Found; published in 2008; filed under Books; tagged asking for it, fashion, modesty, moralizing, promiscuity, sexuality, sluttiness, virgin/whore, young women.

In an era when it’s possible to turn on the television on any given night and see a clutch of bikini-clad women crawling over their male prey (ABC’s The Bachelor), a sex-toy demonstration (HBO’s Real Sex), or a 9-year-old showing off her moves on her parents’ personal stripper pole (E!’s Keeping Up with the Kardashians), Wendy Shalit’s assertion that modesty has made a comeback seems a little, well, optimistic.

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Editors' Letter: Puberty

Those Awkward Years

Article by Lisa Jervis, Andi Zeisler, appeared in issue Puberty; published in 1998; tagged puberty, young women, youth.

It’s a refrain we’re sick and tired of hearing: Feminism doesn’t speak to young women. Girls just aren’t interested in feminism. Self-proclaimed feminists lament it; non-feminists think it proves that feminism is not only unimportant, but outdated. This simplification of the concerns of girls may make for a good sound bite, but it begs for some serious examination. 

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