"This story, told with astringent wit, explores every facet and cliché of what it means to grow up female and beautiful. Sad and witty, expertly conceived and executed. I only wish I'd found Alix Shulman's classic earlier.” -Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, co-author of The Notebook Girls "Extremely relevant-I loved it! Growing up female in America forces many to become obsessed with how they look and how others see them, yet these cultural pressures and their effect on young woman are too rarely taken seriously and it was valuable and comforting to read a book that recognizes this and puts it in perspective. At fifty, Alix Kates Shulman, author of the celebrated feminist novel, Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen, left a city life dense with political activism, family and literary community, and went to live alone on an island off the coast of Maine. Typing prowess and wedding-night virginity may no longer be expected, but Shulman's tale of Sasha Davis's struggle to find herself amid conflicting cultural messages about beauty, brains, and sex will be resonant for many more years to come." -Andi Zeisler, editorial/creative director of Bitch magazine Drinking the rain by Alix Kates Shulman, 1995, Bloomsbury edition, in English. " Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen is a vivid reminder of just how much- and sometimes, how little- has changed for women in the last 35 years.
It's replete with dirty losses of virginity in parking lots and sexy snorkeling, and I highly recommend." -Lizzie Skurnick, Jezebel A comprehensive collection of writings and lectures by one of twentieth-century America’s most important political activists, with two essays by editor Alix Kates Shulman, a leader of feminism’s second wave Emma Goldman’s fiery speeches and essays made her a household name in the early 1900s. "One of the more fun (explicitly) feminist novels ever written.
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