A RETURN TO MODESTY: Discovering the Lost Virtue
 

A RETURN TO MODESTY: Discovering the Lost Virtue

by Wendy Shalit

The 23-year-old author first heard of "modestyniks"--Orthodox Jewish women who withhold physical contact from men until marriage--while a freshman at Williams College. She was initially fascinated by the way in which they cleave to old ideals, especially amid a sexually saturated contemporary world. But more so, Wendy Shalit was aghast at how modestyniks are dismissed as sick, delusional,... (read more)

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Jean C
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This book started off slow and then had me thinking and rethinking some of the issues that I have mentally been wrestling with about the society our children are being influenced by. An interesting read. Lots of facts (I skimmed some that were too detailed) followed by very astute and wry comments by the author. Having always been a woman's advocate it has me rethinking and relooking at the history of woman's liberation and looking at some of the old traditions in a whole new way. Many...

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this book was ridiculous.

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