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Where once a young woman had to be ashamed of her sexual experience, today she is ashamed of her sexual inexperience. Where not long ago an unmarried woman was ashamed to give public evidence of sexual desire by living with someone, today she must be ashamed to give evidence of romantic... read more
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My father is an economist, of the Chicago-school variety, so my earliest memories concern Coase's theorem, Stigler's laws, and the importance of buying and selling rights to pollute.
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Introduction
Part One: The Problem
One: The War on Embarrassment
Two: Postmodern Sexual Etiquette, from Hook-up to Check-up
Three: The Fallout
Four: New Perversions
Part Two: The Forgotten Ideal
Five: Forgiving Modesty
Six: The Great Deception
Seven: Can Modesty Be Natural?
Eight: Male Character
Part Three: The Return
Nine: Against the Curing of Womanhood
Ten: Modesty and the Erotic
Eleven: Pining for Interference
Twelve: Beyond Modernity
A Modest Conclusion: Innocence
Appendix: Some Modest Advice
Notes
References
Acknowledgments
Index
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- Wendy Shalit (Author)
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 306.7082
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