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Sat 06 Jun 2009The accidental feminist
BIOGRAPHY: Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley BrownBy Jennifer ScanlonOxford University Press, 288pp $27.95
ONE OF the first features I ever had the privilege of hammering out for this newspaper was on the concept of the “Cosmo Girl” as lauded in the pages of Cosmopolitan, an ageing Hearst title that under the astute editorship of Helen Gurley Brown had begun sweeping all before it.
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