"As Scanlon sees it, however, any young woman claiming entitlement to career opportunities and a satisfying sex life, financial independence and sensational lipstick, abortion rights and a darling apartment, owes a lot to Helen Gurley Brown. The face of feminism today--at least in the hedonistic, individualistic version embraced by many young single women, including some who wouldn't necessarily call it 'feminism'--is more her creation than Friedan's or Steinem's. Yet Brown's brand of mainstream feminism (she has never hesitated to call it that) 'has largely been left out of established histories of postwar feminism's emergence and ascendance.'"
Laura Miller in Salon reviews Jennifer Scanlon's Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown.
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