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Alix Kates Shulman's Memoirs of an Ex–Prom Queen created a profound impact on the cultural landscape when it was originally published in 1972. A sardonic portrayal of one white, middle-class, Midwestern girl's coming-of-age, the novel takes a wry and prescient look at a range of experiences treated at the time as taboo but which were ultimately accepted as matters of major political significance: sexual harassment, job discrimination, the sexual double standard, rape, abortion restrictions, the double binds of marriage and motherhood, and the frantic quest for beauty. The book went on to sell more than a million copies and is regarded today as a classic, one of the first and best pieces of fiction born of the women's liberation movement. With many of its concerns still with us today, this witty and devastating novel continues to resonate with readers, and Sasha Davis has proved herself a prom queen for the ages.
- Sales Rank: #993601 in Books
- Published on: 2007-03-06
- Released on: 2007-03-06
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.50" h x .67" w x 5.50" l, .85 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 296 pages
- ISBN13: 9780374530792
- Condition: New
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“Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen is a vivid reminder of just how much--and sometimes, how little--has changed for women in the last 35 years. Typing prowess and wedding-night virginity may no longer be expected, but Shulman's tale of Sasha Davis's struggle to find herself amid conflicting cultural messages about beauty, brains, and sex will be resonant for many more years to come.” ―Andi Zeisler, editorial/creative director of Bitch magazine
“Extremely relevant--I loved it! Growing up female in America forces many to become obsessed with how they look and how others see them, yet these cultural pressures and their effect on young woman are too rarely taken seriously and it was valuable and comforting to read a book that recognizes this and puts it in perspective. I only wish I'd found Alix Shulman's classic earlier.” ―Sophie Pollitt-Cohen, co-author of The Notebook Girls
“An extraordinary novel . . . Sad and witty, expertly conceived and executed . . . Important.” ―Peter Prescott, Newsweek
“This story, told with astringent wit, explores every facet and cliché of what it means to grow up female and beautiful.” ―San Francisco Chronicle
“A vicious little gem of a novel.” ―Cosmopolitan
About the Author
Alix Kates Shulman is the author of three other novels, the award-winning memoir Drinking the Rain, two books on the anarchist Emma Goldman, and three children's books. She divides her time between New York City and Maine.
From The Washington Post
Reviewed by Evelyn Small
Called by its original publisher (Knopf) the "first feminist novel," Memoirs of an Ex-Prom Queen appeared 35 years ago and sold more than a million copies in just a few years. Now it's back, in an anniversary edition reprint. The narrator, Sasha Davis, an Ohio girl, high school prom queen, now divorced and in a second marriage "headed for the same miserable demise as the first," is still searching for herself. Touching on issues that continue to color the cultural landscape -- abortion, date rape, balancing work and motherhood -- Memoirs was, for some readers, what the Saturday Review (May 20, 1972) called a "break-through book," the "first important novel to emerge from the Women's Liberation movement."
The Post's reviewer, Barbara Howar (April 26, 1972), took the messages of the book personally: "With uncomfortable frequency, I find myself torn between the warring factions of the Women's Rights Movement and its natural enemy, the Great White Male. So grand is my passion for both that I resent having to take sides which it becomes my sticky business to do in commenting on this first novel. . . . Heroine Sasha recounts with heavy humor her blundering quest for autonomy in a male-oriented society . . . terrorized by bullying, domineering little boys who grew into big ones.
"Having been a Prom Queen a time or two, I can readily share Sasha's rage at being pushed into beauty-worship before she gets the message that a woman just might need something more in life than the identity of the man she marries. . . .
"Sasha refuses to see that her parents as well as the goodly number of men in her life are victimized by the same system that did her in, that we are all in the soup together. . . .
"After this cathartic memoir, my guess is that Alix Shulman will get her sense of humor and fair-play into some less paranoid perspective and write a constructive book better suited to her talent and to the vast army of troubled women who need her."
Shulman has written three other novels, several children's books, two books on Emma Goldman and two memoirs, A Good Enough Daughter and Drinking the Rain.
Copyright 2007, The Washington Post. All Rights Reserved.
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How far we've come but not far enough
By DT
What a great feminist book, and by “feminist” I don’t mean the exclusion of men, I mean an understanding of the experience of being a woman not that long ago. Sasha grew up in the 40s and 50s. Life was very different for women then, and they didn’t have the choices we have now. Most women married and had children and stayed home to be homemakers. If they went to college, it was to find a husband. Sasha is obsessed with being beautiful throughout her life because that was the biggest source of power for a woman. She studies philosophy in college, travels to Europe, and delays marriage and children. She wants to be independent but craves the validation of men. She constantly struggles with her vanity and her conflicting desire to be free. How far we’ve come but not far enough. Women are still not paid equal pay and the Equal Rights Amendment, which was defeated in the 70s, was never passed. Women are not equal under the Constitution. I think a lot of people don’t realize this little fact. Sasha’s story ended abruptly and I hoped she’d accomplish more, as I hope women continue to achieve more and keep moving forward in the desire to be treated equally in this country and the world.
25 of 29 people found the following review helpful.
A Book For Every Women
By AMLeClair
I'm 21 years old and was given this book to read for my U.S. Women's History class that I knew I'd hate (the class, not the book) because I'm no history buff, as this class was an unfortuantely forced elective. I was merely looking forward to reading some of the literature that the professor mandated, such as Work by Louisa May Alcott and Incidents In The Life Of A Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs; however stumbling onto Memoirs Of An Ex Prom Queen, I opened up to a random page and read a little bit to see what I was getting myself into. This was unlike any other female writer that I've read and did read in that particular class. I knew that ending the semester, this book would still be in my head and hands. I started from the beginning and couldn't put it down with my mind swarming inside and out of the words that dive further and further into Sasha's world of sexuality and ambition. As an English: Creative Writing major, I found this to be my literary muse. Of course, I've always found creative inspiration in plays and poetry, but this work of fiction opened up my eyes to new depths of writing as the woman that I'm growing to be. Everything that Alix Kates Shulman touched on was clever and thought-provoking, relatable and enticing, as well as genious and raw. It reminded me a bit of Sylvia Plath's The Belljar (although that's much heavier and serious to take on) because of the brutal honesty and irony that Sasha expresses in scrutinizing herself and relationships. As a young woman approaching the age that Sasha starts at in the beginning of the novel, all of those qualities and characteristics of the story are amplified to me, although I'm not married, in an anonymous mid-West town, or in a post World War II society. She writes with such gripping reality that could truly touch every woman. For those who are strongly against promiscuity, this perhaps is not the book for you, but if you have an open mind and are willing to hear her philosophies of intimate relations that are both viable and provocative, meet Sasha Davis. I've read this book twice already and know that whenever I need inspiration or to have a little laugh, this is the book to turn to. Even though I know what happens at the end and in the beginning of her story, reacquainting myself with Sasha is stimulating, rewarding, and entertaining. For the holidays, I know that I'm going to give this book to every friend of mine. I've read a variety of talented "dead-white-male writers" like Jack Kerouac, the recently deceased Hunter S. Thompson, William Faulkner, and Ernest Hemingway and they write like men write, but Alix Kates Shulman rivals those classic writers, epitomizing how a real woman tells a story about a real woman.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.
An amazing coming of age story
By Alison
I recently finished "Memoirs" and I can not stop thinking about it. I had never read any thing like it and it has greatly impacted my life and the way I perceive things. I received "Memoirs" as a Christmas prestent in 1999, when I was fourteen. It was only this past Easter vacation however that I got a chance to really read and listen to what Sasha, the protagonist, had to tell me. Sasha was born during the War and lived in a mid-western middle class town. She was surrounded by all the femal sterotypes of the day, but because of her intelligence was able to pursue some of her dreams. Sasha's fears and desires are all the things that we think but don't talk about. Almost everyone has felt the degrading affects of disrespect, including Sasha. While some of her descriptions of situations are accompanied by swears I feel that you have to look past it and put yourself in the situation. This book gives you a clear picture of an almost date rape, the confusions of growing up, and the day to day struggles that women go/went through. I highly reccommend this book to mature teenages as well as adults. This book has made me realize just how lucky I am to be living in a time where women are now able to talk, instead of keeping their secrets bottled up.
~a 16 Year old reader
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