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A Return to Modesty
Wendy Shalit
其他書名
Discovering the Lost Virtue
出版
Simon and Schuster
, 2014-05-20
主題
Social Science / Women's Studies
Social Science / Gender Studies
Family & Relationships / General
Social Science / Popular Culture
ISBN
1476765170
9781476765174
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=idCDAAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Updated with a new introduction, this fifteenth anniversary edition of
A Return to Modesty
reignites Wendy Shalit’s controversial claim that we have lost our respect for an essential virtue: modesty.
When
A Return to Modesty
was first published in 1999, its argument launched a worldwide discussion about the possibility of innocence and romantic idealism. Wendy Shalit was the first to systematically critique the "hook-up" scene and outline the harms of making sexuality so public.
Today, with social media increasingly blurring the line between public and private life, and with child exploitation on the rise, the concept of modesty is more relevant than ever. Updated with a new preface that addresses the unique problems facing society now,
A Return to Modesty
shows why "the lost virtue" of modesty is not a hang-up that we should set out to cure, but rather a wonderful instinct to be celebrated.
A Return to Modesty
is a deeply personal account as well as a fascinating intellectual exploration into everything from seventeenth-century manners to the 1948 tune "Baby, It’s Cold Outside." Beholden neither to social conservatives nor to feminists, Shalit reminds us that modesty is not prudery, but a natural instinct—and one that may be able to save us from ourselves.