Babes in Boyland: Creating Virtue at an American Corporation

By Gina Barreca

Book Overview

Offering a frank and observant look at gender, education, and identity at a critical juncture in the author's - and America's - development, Babes in Boyland brings to life a pivotal moment in the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584652993
• ISBN13: 9781584652991
• Release Date: January 2005
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

The boys thought they'd get away with something.

Sweet revenge. Those foolish young men at Dartmouth thought they'd haze the newly arrived coeds because as Dartmouth men, they were superior. Well, Barreca balances the ledger in this book--and big time. Those men are unmasked as nothing more than boys who think that by acting smart they were really smart. Think again. Barreca has seen through masculine insecurity and has shown us what a really smart, sensitive, and observing woman can make out of a difficult situation. This is a snappy, funny, really surprising and charming book. Give a copy away to that young woman heading off to college. She'll love it.

applying to college and got the book

from my mom who went to school in the seventies. i love it. it's really honest. not so much has changed because i still feel weird around people who have a lot more money or who i think are smarter than me. (or is that than smarter than i?)the author deals with all this stuff but in a funny way.

Short, sexy, sassy; what goes on under the ivy leaf...

that they don't want you to see? A must-read for anybody who went to college in the '70s or early 80s, and for any girl who feels she isn't welcome in Boyland even today. Short and sassy.