Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9781401300463 (1401300464)
Publish date: April 14th 2004
Publisher: Hyperion
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Academic,
Feminism,
College,
Sociology,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Psychology,
Womens,
Social Science
I was never part of a sorority. My college had one, with four members. This book is supposedly shines the light on sororities and will tell . . . pretty much what you already know. It follows four girls, and to find out what happens to the girls is the only reason to read this book. The revelati...
I get the feeling I'm not getting the full picture of sorority life due to how she phrases certain sections and how endless her subjects' dialogue is (unless they're carrying around recorders, I find it hard to believe it's all that exact), but Robbins' novel gives me just enough insight and ideas f...
I expected this book to be more about hazing and less about their lives. It was interesting, but we can't assume that every sorority girl has a life like one of these four girls. I don't really have anything else to say, aside from this book makes me glad I didn't join a sorority!
I think Ms. Robbins is just sore because she didn't get a bid.
There wasn't really anything very shocking or secret in this book... at least nothing I couldn't have guessed anyway. It was a quick, easy read. The author said that she wanted to write about women treating other women poorly. And, I mean, I guess she did in a way but it wasn't really discussed or a...
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