Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good is a book by Wendy Shalit published by Random House in 2007.Catton, Pia. "A Modest Rebellion: Modern feminism's compulsory coarseness spurs a backlash". The Wall Street Journal June 23, 2007.Howard, Jennifer. "Post-sleaze possibilities: Wendy Shalit touts idea of 'rebellious good girls'". Book World. Washington Post August 10, 2007.Kay, Barbara. "Rebelling Against a Culture of Porn".Miller, Cheryl. "Modern girls and the moral revival they are leading". Washington Times August 5, 2007.Pollitt, Katha. "The Solipsisters". Bookend. New York Times April 18, 1999.Yabroff, Jennie. "Girls Going Mild(er): A new 'modesty movement' aims to teach young women they don't have to be bad, or semiclad". Newsweek 2007.Wendelin, Greta. "From Sexism to Feminism: Arguments of Definition in A Return to Modesty and Girls Gone Mild". MA Thesis. University of Kansas, 2009.
Reception
Critical reception for Girls Gone Mild has been mixed. One reviewer notes, "Adults in authority—school administrators, commentators, and government officials—often seem to want teens to get only one side of the sexuality story. But girls need—and want—an alternative. In letting more and more young Americans know the alternative is out there."
Another critic notes, "Revamping outdated notions of femininity and positioning them as cutting edge may be a smart way to sell a glut of baggy bathing suits then, but it sure doesn't sound like a revolution."
See also A Return to Modesty Doesn't Anyone Blush Anymore? Chastity
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