Amusing view | Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-bys, and Other Initiations

Perfect Picture of Rushing | Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-bys, and Other Initiations | Vendela Vida

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	• Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-bys, and Other Initiations Vendela Vida St. Martin's Griffin, 2000 - 192 pages average customer review:based on 29 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

But why must it be PINK?

I'm a sucker for the mixed essay, world-perspective editorial style of editorship anyway, so foucing upon an issue of interest to me was just a cherry on top. Girls are becoming women wherever they live, regardless of the the sociopolitical background they come from- there are two eternal truths: you friends know sooo much better, and. . . unfortunately- your mother becomes a blithering fool the moment you turn 11.

Wish I had the time to reread before I need to resell!

Amusing view

I picked this book up because unlike Alexandra Robbins "Pledged," Ms. Vida actually decided to experience a sorority rush as one of the "rites of initiation" she covered. For her other topics, she interviewed young women in the situations and did her best to observe some of the activities (e.g. a debutante ball). I especially enjoyed her epilogue where she attended the Burning Man festival in Nevada. I found it to be an amusing point of view and an enjoyable light read.

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Perfect Picture of Rushing

I was absolutely astounded that someone could paint such a perfect picture of rushing for a sorority. Vida mentioned every crucial, and frequently humorous, detail of the process. Accurate and brilliant.

In a fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida 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" (the Latin American celebration of a girl's fifteenth birthday), 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.

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