Summary: Celebrating the sixtieth anniversary of the classic--and, back in the day--controversial book, today's leading feminist thinkers and writers pay homage to Brown's original work and reinterpret it for a new generation, validating women's sexual lives and individual eras of singlehood.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Perennial 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306.81 SEXSummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Rosen, Renée
Summary: "It's 1965 in New York City and Helen Gurley Brown, the new editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan, shocks America and saves a dying publication by daring to talk to women about everything off-limits. Alice Weiss is a single girl from a small midwestern town who unexpectedly lands a job at Cosmo, a job nothing could have prepared her for. When someone tries to pull Alice into a scene to sabotage her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2019
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ROSShapiro, Laura
Summary: "A beloved culinary historian's short takes on six famous women through the lens of food and cooking--what they ate and how their attitudes toward food offer surprising new insights into their lives. Everyone eats, and food touches on every aspect of our lives--social and cultural, personal and political. Yet most biographers pay little attention to people's attitudes toward food, as if the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 641.5092 SHADavid, Anna
Summary: Using "Sex and the single girl" by Helen Gurley Brown as a lesson plan, Anna David ventured out of her comfort zone in the hope of overcoming fears and insecurities that had haunted her for years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Paperbacks 2011