... heavenly roses into an earthly life.”
-Friedrich Schiller
Wendy Shalit's Girls Gone Mild is Generation Y's counter-cultural answer to The Feminine Mystique, written by Betty Friedan. In this setting alone, the library's sole copy is eagerly snatched up and passed around from girl to girl, inspiring fervent discussions over what it means to live as a woman today. Passages are quoted, read aloud, cited in conversation; ideas are disseminated. For a generation of women reared in a time so accusatory of and derogatory toward traditional womanhood, Shalit's words bring hope and inspiration, and a new feeling of solidarity with a sisterhood most of us didn't even know existed. And by "traditional womanhood", at least how I have understood it from Shalit's books, is meant women who are vibrantly proud to be women; who delight in God-given gender differences; who eagerly embrace, or wish to embrace, the roles of wife and mother; who would rather cultivate their minds, souls, relationships, and faith than cultivate miles of exposed, flawless flesh.
Girls Gone Mild is, in the opinion of this humble blogger, a generational milestone.
“Every woman shares in Mary's sublime dignity.”
-Pope John Paul II
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