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Ruth Shalit. Mina Shalit. Wendy Shalit ( / ʃəˈliːt /; born 1975) is an American conservative writer and author [1] who has written the books A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, published by Free Press in 1999; [2] [3] Girls Gone Mild: Young Rebels Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good, published by Random House ...
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- Ruth Shalit, Mina Shalit
When A Return to Modesty was first published in 1999, its young author surprised many with her invitation to consider the new power to be found in an old ideal. With her deeply personal account as well as fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune “Baby, It’s Cold Outside,” Wendy Shalit launched a worldwide discussion about the ...
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Oct 7, 2008 · Wendy Shalit is a young woman of no modest accomplishments. Yet, it’s modesty itself that has given her a national platform. In 1999, just two years after graduating from Williams College, ...
Jul 18, 2007 · When Wendy Shalit shows up for lunch at a north Toronto restaurant, fashionably but modestly dressed in a long skirt and white jacket, brown haircut au courant to frame a pretty face, she looks no ...
Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good is a book by the American conservative writer Wendy Shalit published by Random House in 2007. The book is an investigation into an emerging new movement of young women rediscovering their capacity for innocence.
- Wendy Shalit
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- 2007
- June 26, 2007
In truth, modesty is nearly the opposite of prudery. Paradoxically, prudish people have more in common with the promiscuous. The prudish and the promiscuous share a disposition against allowing themselves to be moved by others, or to fall in love. Modesty, on the other hand, invites and protects the evocation of real love.
Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue is a 1999 non-fiction debut book by Wendy Shalit. The non-fiction book claims that the power to heal women's purported ills lies in reinstatement of sexual modesty, the resurrection of romantic ideals, and conservative manners. References
