The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order

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Summary: If you only buy one book this year, make it this one
Review: The gals at Bust are both insightful and witty and have anuncanny way of being frank and funny at the same time. Bust iseverything you've always wanted in a magazine but never got from mags like Cosmo and Glamour. This book is the essential guide to the new girl order and is fantastic if you've missed some Bust issues. Five stars, baby!

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Summary: Get your hands on this book!
Review: There is a certain satisfaction that comes from discovering a new book that you really dig. The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order satisfied me beyond my wildest expectations! The women who contributed to the Bust Guide share themselves in a way that let me know I'm not alone in the world. Bravo!

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Summary: Highly recommended!
Review: This book is fantastic! It is a compilation of articles from the editor's magazine of the same title (Bust). Since the many pieces within this book are written by different people, this book encompasses many topics and perspectives. The writings range from hilarious to very serious and everywhere in between. Best of all, this book is interesting and covers a point of view other books seem to miss. To me this is modern feminist reading at its best.

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Summary: Highly recommended!
Review: This book is fantastic! It is a compilation of articles from the editor's magazine of the same title (Bust). Since the many pieces within this book are written by different people, this book encompasses many topics and perspectives. The writings range from hilarious to very serious and everywhere in between. Best of all, this book is interesting and covers a point of view other books seem to miss. To me this is modern feminist reading at its best.

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Summary: great read! funny as hell!
Review: this book is really great...I picked it up yesterday and I can't put it down..I brought it to school and read it during class! there's great stories, info, and lotz of funny stuff!! I've been looking for good feminist books and magazines, and this is both of those combined into one! this book was a great find, and I'm already subscribing to "Bust" magazine!

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Summary: I am in love with this book, this wonderful stack of pages!
Review: This book is so exceptionally superb! This should be given to all young girls. I have been waiting for this book for months and I now keep it by my bed and use it as my bible. I cannot wait to one day let my own teenage daughter read it. Hopefully by then the girl species will have evolved as well as the great BUST-y ladies who tell their stories in this fabulous book.

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Summary: True Gen X Feminism
Review: This book ROCKS! I haven't connected this strongly with a book since, "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?" Obviously, it's been a while. I had never read Bust Magazine and the book was recommended to me by a truly hip, grrl friendly, Bustboy, guy friend of mine. These girls got it goin on! This is a must read for all women who want to know themselves and the sisterhood and all men who want to know women. Can't wait to see what Marcelle and Debbie and all the other fab writers do next. And, BTW, where are all the other women reading this book? Recommend this book to your friends, but especially buy this book for your daughters.

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Summary: True Gen X Feminism
Review: This book ROCKS! I haven't connected this strongly with a book since, "Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?" Obviously, it's been a while. I had never read Bust Magazine and the book was recommended to me by a truly hip, grrl friendly, Bustboy, guy friend of mine. These girls got it goin on! This is a must read for all women who want to know themselves and the sisterhood and all men who want to know women. Can't wait to see what Marcelle and Debbie and all the other fab writers do next. And, BTW, where are all the other women reading this book? Recommend this book to your friends, but especially buy this book for your daughters.

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Summary: Big up for BUST!
Review: This book was great! If for nothing else, chapter 6 "Yo' Mama, Yo' Self" was worth the entire cost of the book with its frank discussions in essays about having children and NOT having them. Empowering and uplifting! A reference manual I will come back to after having read the whole thing straight through in one sitting!

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Summary: flawed but feisty
Review: This book, like the magazine that spawned it, is a very nice book that makes feminism very fun and acessible for girls. But I wonder if too many things have been sacrificed to make this book acessible. This book was written primarily by white middle-class women who stay away from controversial topics like the prevalence of Asian and Latina fetishism in American culture today. The book tries to appeal to more girls by promoting a feel-good version of feminism. The book encourages girls to have self-esteem, but often fails to attack the societal institutions that cause these girls to have low self-esteem to start with. This book is very good next to drivel such as Cosmos and Glamour, but there's certainly room for improvement.