A Return to Modesty

Discovering the Lost Virtue

Wendy Shalit (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2000
The Free Press (Verlag)
978-0-684-86317-7 (ISBN)

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A fresh young voice offers women a surprising proposal for taking control of their lives: a resurrection of the rich and underrated tradition of modesty.

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.

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.

CONTENTS

Introduction

PART ONE. THE PROBLEM

One The War on Embarrassment

Two Postmodern Sexual Etiquette, from Hook-up to Checkup

Three The Fallout

Four New Perversions

PART TWO. THE FORGOTTEN IDEAL

Five Forgiving Modesty

Six The Great Deception

Seven Can Modesty Be Natural?

Eight Male Character

PART THREE. THE RETURN

Nine Against the Curing of Womanhood

Ten Modesty and the Erotic

Eleven Pining for Interference

Twelve Beyond Modernity

A Modest Conclusion: Innocence

Appendix: Some Modest Advice

Notes

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.3.2000
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 214 mm
Gewicht	273 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sexualität / Partnerschaft
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-684-86317-0 / 0684863170
ISBN-13	978-0-684-86317-7 / 9780684863177
Zustand	Neuware