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Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations

Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations

Vendela Vida
3.3/5 ( ratings)
In a fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida's Girls on the Verge explores a variety of rituals that girls have adapted or created in order to leave their childhoods behind.



Vida doesn't just observe the rituals, she actively participates in them, going as far as spending a week at UCLA to experience rush--she emerges a Tri-Delt. She also goes to Miami to learn about the quince , to Houston to take part in a debutante ball, to Los Angeles and San Francisco to talk to female gang members, to Salem, Massachusetts, to interview a coven of witches, and to Las Vegas to watch young brides take the plunge--some of them in drive-through wedding chapels. With humor, insight, and illuminating detail, she explores girls' struggles to forge an identity and secure a sense of belonging through various rituals--rituals that they embrace without necessarily understanding the comforts they seek or the repercussions of their often all-too-adult choices.
Language
English
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Release
June 12, 2000
ISBN
0312263287
ISBN 13
9780312263287

Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations

Vendela Vida
3.3/5 ( ratings)
In a fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida's Girls on the Verge explores a variety of rituals that girls have adapted or created in order to leave their childhoods behind.



Vida doesn't just observe the rituals, she actively participates in them, going as far as spending a week at UCLA to experience rush--she emerges a Tri-Delt. She also goes to Miami to learn about the quince , to Houston to take part in a debutante ball, to Los Angeles and San Francisco to talk to female gang members, to Salem, Massachusetts, to interview a coven of witches, and to Las Vegas to watch young brides take the plunge--some of them in drive-through wedding chapels. With humor, insight, and illuminating detail, she explores girls' struggles to forge an identity and secure a sense of belonging through various rituals--rituals that they embrace without necessarily understanding the comforts they seek or the repercussions of their often all-too-adult choices.
Language
English
Pages
192
Format
Paperback
Publisher
St. Martin's Griffin
Release
June 12, 2000
ISBN
0312263287
ISBN 13
9780312263287

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