American Girls by Nancy Jo Sales

American Girls by Nancy Jo Sales

A New York Times Bestseller

Award-winning Vanity Fair writer Nancy Jo Sales crisscrossed the country talking to more than two hundred girls between the ages of thirteen and nineteen about their experiences online and off. They are coming of age online in a hypersexualized culture that has normalized extreme behavior, from pornography to the casual exchange of nude photographs; a culture rife with a virulent new strain of sexism; a culture in which teenagers are spending so much time on technology and social media that they are not developing basic communication skills.

The dominant force in the lives of girls coming of age in America today is social media: Instagram, Whisper, Vine, Youtube, Kik, Ask.fm, Tinder.

Provocative, explosive, and urgent, American Girls will ignite much-needed conversation about how we can help our daughters and sons negotiate the new social and sexual norms that govern their lives.

Nancy Jo Sales is an award-winning journalist who has contributed to publications such as Vanity Fair, New York, Harper's Bazaar, and others. Damien Hirst, Hugh Hefner, Russell Simmons, Donald Trump, Tyra Banks, Angelina Jolie, Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton, and Taylor Swift are among the celebrities she has profiled. The Suspects Wore Louboutins, which she wrote for Vanity Fair in 2010, is the inspiration for Sofia Coppola's film The Bling Ring. Sales and her daughter live in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780385353922
ISBN 10	0385353928
Title	American Girls
Author	Nancy Jo Sales
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Alfred A. Knopf
Year published	2016-02-23
Number of pages	416
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