Girls on the Verge: Debutante Dips, Drive-Bys, and Other Initiations

by Vendela Vida

Book Overview

In a fascinating look at how young women are coming of age in America, Vendela Vida's Girls on the Verge explores a variety of rituals that girls have adapted or created in order to leave their childhoods behind.

Vida doesn't just observe the rituals, she actively participates in them, going as far as spending a week at UCLA to experience rush--she emerges a Tri-Delt. She also goes to Miami to learn about the "quince" (the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312263287
• ISBN13: 9780312263287
• Release Date: June 2000
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Every teen girl goes through an initiation in her life.

This is a compeling book about several intiations that teens go through. I myself realted to at least two of these intiations. I could not put this book down, that is how much I enjoyed it. If teens intrest you or if you have a teen I suggest this book, who knows your teen could be going through one of these intiations right now.

Wow!

I just finished Girls on the Verge and I was completely blown away. Vida can write! My life is quite different from the lives of the girls portrayed yet I felt I was right there along with them. Vida manages to capture the amazing complexities of growing up as a girl today.

Intelligent, insightful, witty,entertaining - a great read!!

I thoroughly enjoyed this book - couldn't put it down. Vendela Vida is a gifted writer whose style allows you to feel as though you were there when she was experiencing these unique and interesting situations described in the book. Vida provides an insightful look into a number of fascinating cultural practices as well as human nature itself in all its variations. I highly recommend this book!

Insightful, witty and extremely readable! A real treat!

In Girls On The Verge, Ms. Vida delves into the complex issueof coming of age rituals of young women today. Her varied examples anddauntless uncover reporting make the subject matter delightfully readable. I would recommend this book to anyone but particularly women of any age as it provides real insight to the difficults of self-definition in an age of few meaningful rituals for women in the United States.

I am just at the begining, but this book is GREAT!!

I have just recently finished the first chapter of Girls on the Verge and the content hits me right on. The first chapter is about sorority rush at UCLA and while I did not attened UCLA, I am a member of a national sorority. The contents of this chapter reflect EXACTLY what goes on during sorority rush. It was an exciting chapter and I look forward to the rest of the book!!