Review
Bracing biography...thoroughly absorbing. (Frances Wilson, TLS )
Scanlon's biography, both scholarly and readable, is an excellent treatise on the subject. (Jeananne Crowley, Irish Times )
Scanlon...is to be applauded for her revisionist approach. (Liz Hoggard, Evening Standard )
The book moves at a cracking pace and is mercifully free of academic jargon. (Liz Hoggard, Evening Standard )
A deeply satisfying and illuminating read...Scanlon is also a clear-headed and fair biographer. (Sarah Vine, The Times )
An important book for any modern woman who occasionally wonders how we got where we are today. (Sarah Vine, The Times )
Scanlon's biography, both scholarly and readable, is an excellent treatise on the subject. (Jeananne Crowley, Irish Times )
Scanlon...is to be applauded for her revisionist approach. (Liz Hoggard, Evening Standard )
The book moves at a cracking pace and is mercifully free of academic jargon. (Liz Hoggard, Evening Standard )
A deeply satisfying and illuminating read...Scanlon is also a clear-headed and fair biographer. (Sarah Vine, The Times )
An important book for any modern woman who occasionally wonders how we got where we are today. (Sarah Vine, The Times )
Product Description
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"Scanlon's shrewed biography reveals a woman of contraditions...a strategically racy cultural pioneer."
- O, The Oprah Magazine
As the author of the revolutionary Sex and the Single Girl and the longtime editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine, Helen Gurley Brown changed how women thought about sex, money, and their bodies in a way that resonates in our culture today. In Jennifer Scanlon's widely acclaimed biography, the award-winning scholar related Brown's escape from her humble beginnings in the Ozarks to her eyebrow- raising exploits as a young woman in New York, and her late-blooming career as the world's first "lipstick feminist." A mesmerizing look at an often overlooked figure, Bad Girls Go Everywhere will appeal to everyone from Sex and the City aficionados to students of women's studies.
