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Sex And The Single Girl By Helen Gurley Brown
Sex and the Single Girl is a novel written by Helen Gurley Brown that really gives us a liberal and different side of women in the 1960s and what our culture was facing. The novel too many in our present day generation will most likely agree to most of the content, however there are several examples of what I believe our culture would find different to talk about in public without getting looks. Brown is breaking down this barrier with her novel, and wants women to be able to express themselves. Brown goes into detail about married men barriers, talks about sex, and shows us that women no longer need to live by the stigmas given. Brown discusses in a chapter called the “availables: the men in your life” a very controversial issue in discussing single women flirting with married men, and more. The book written in the 1960s is a time when women were dictated as a house wife who was supposed to care for the husband and children, and if by a certain age you were not married it was odd. Then to talk about affairs, especially for women to do, was very …show more content…
This chapter does do a little contradictory to what her beliefs are on defeating social norms, but in this case she tends to use what she knows men enjoy most. One way that sexy women can attract men is having their own apartment. She explains that women do not need to spend much on an apartment, because what is inside is what matters most. Posters of traveling are good, and having books show nice things about you. For the kitchen, have as many spices as possible on display, cook books, and pots and skillets on display. Brown acknowledges one way to a man is through his stomach. This chapter is a little inconsistent of what her beliefs are when she tells us that making something look good to please a man, and cooking is how to win a man is needed. However, I do not think she is totally giving into the social norms but more trying to embrace

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