tiffanymbooks's review against another edition
5.0
I’m going to carry this book deep in my heart for the rest of my life. I had no idea how badly I needed this. Hilarious, sad, but mostly uplifting THIS is the book to read if you ever need a little help finding yourself.
emilymaye's review against another edition
5.0
I'm so glad this amalgamation of the editors' and writers' work of re/unlearning Helen Gurley Brown's 1962 Sex and the Single Girl is alive and waiting for readers. The source text, while titillating for its time, is very much outdated for our time so these writers expand past the white, heteronormative, cisgendered, ablebodied, monogamous way of sex and relationships clogging up the information pipeline for single women. These essays do more than just advise you to be sexy for the sake of a man. Female pleasure, queer dating, transitioning, polyamory, celibacy, IVF, not getting married, not having kids - it tackles so much and is definitely worth your time.
brooklyn_book_girl's review against another edition
5.0
you love to see a feminist book that acknowledges and highlights the complexities/fluidity of gender & sexuality + the intersections of race & socioeconomic status
laurannolivia's review against another edition
emotional
informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
medium-paced
3.75
cluckenbook's review against another edition
emotional
funny
hopeful
informative
lighthearted
fast-paced
4.25
rachelnevada's review
I picked up this book immediately after reading Morgan Parker's "Confessions of a Perpetually Single Woman" in Elle. (It was so achingly resonant). (I've recommended it to everyone).
I'm not sure what I was expecting the remaining 23 essays to encapsulate (in fact I didn't think much about it at all), but I was wonderfully and pleasantly surprised. The subtitle, "24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic," does little to convey the breadth and depth of these essays. There are entries by transwomen, by other queer people, by sex workers, by women in their late sixties, by disabled women. They talk about love affairs and being virgins and the glory of having your own apartment (and the vulnerability of sharing an apartment). There are women who are mothers, women on IVF, women who never want to have children in their lives. Women who are happy to be single, women who are no longer single, women who are desperately lonely and vulnerable enough to share that. All of these essays written by amazing, fantastic writers including Nichole Perkins, Keah Brown, and Kristen Arnett.
I feel confident saying there's a little something in here for everyone (and it's definitely worth the read!). (Or at the very least, please read Morgan Parker's essay, for the love of god!!)
I'm not sure what I was expecting the remaining 23 essays to encapsulate (in fact I didn't think much about it at all), but I was wonderfully and pleasantly surprised. The subtitle, "24 Writers Reimagine Helen Gurley Brown's Cult Classic," does little to convey the breadth and depth of these essays. There are entries by transwomen, by other queer people, by sex workers, by women in their late sixties, by disabled women. They talk about love affairs and being virgins and the glory of having your own apartment (and the vulnerability of sharing an apartment). There are women who are mothers, women on IVF, women who never want to have children in their lives. Women who are happy to be single, women who are no longer single, women who are desperately lonely and vulnerable enough to share that. All of these essays written by amazing, fantastic writers including Nichole Perkins, Keah Brown, and Kristen Arnett.
I feel confident saying there's a little something in here for everyone (and it's definitely worth the read!). (Or at the very least, please read Morgan Parker's essay, for the love of god!!)