Lynn Peril (Author of Pink Think)

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Lynn Peril

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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, The United States

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Lynn Peril was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, but has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1985. She writes, edits and publishes Mystery Date: One Gal's Guide to Good Stuff, a zine devoted to her obsession with used books (particularly old sex and dating manuals, etiquette and self-help books and health, beauty and fashion guides) and other detritus of popular culture, especially that concerning gender-related behavioral prescriptions. Mystery Date is currently taking a well deserved hiatus, but will return some day (or so she hopes - in the meantime, visit the archives). She further explores these issues in her book, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons (W.W. Norton, 2002), a pop-culture history of the perilous path to a ...more

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	Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,323 ratings — published 2002 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	College Girls: Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and Co-eds, Then and Now 3.83 avg rating — 555 ratings — published 2006 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office 3.67 avg rating — 132 ratings — published 2011 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office [Paperback] [2011] (Author) Lynn Peril 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“I have grown up to be many things, but dainty sure as hell isn't one of them.”
― Lynn Peril, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons

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