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Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities Paperback - 2005

by Alexandra Robbins

Now in paperback comes the "New York Times" bestseller that takes readers behind closed doors to see what "really" goes on in America's sororities.


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Alexandra Robbins wanted to find out if the stereotypes about sorority girls were actually true, so she spent a year with a group of girls in a typical sorority. The sordid behavior of sorority girls exceeded her worst expectations -- drugs, psychological abuse, extreme promiscuity, racism, violence, and rampant eating disorders are just a few of the problems. But even more surprising was the fact that these abuses were inflicted and endured by intelligent, successful, and attractive women. Why is the desire to belong to a sorority so powerful that women are willing to engage in this type of behavior -- especially when the women involved are supposed to be considered 'sisters'? What definition of sisterhood do many women embrace? Pledged combines a sharp-eyed narrative with extensive reporting and the fly-on-the-wall voyeurism of reality shows to provide the answer.

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ON SORORITY ROW, SORORITY girls stepped cheerily into their houses, many of them followed by fathers loaded up with boxes or, in the exceptionally good-looking cases, towing beefy undergrad boys just barely able to see over the duffel bags full of clothes and stuffed animals they dutifully hefted.

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  • Title Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities
  • Author Alexandra Robbins
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 408
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Hachette Books, NY
  • Date 2005-07-06
  • ISBN 9780786888597 / 0786888598
  • Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.08 x 5.24 x 0.99 in (20.52 x 13.31 x 2.51 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Library of Congress subjects Greek letter societies - United States, Women - Education (Higher) - Social aspects
  • Dewey Decimal Code 378.198

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  • Ingram Advance, 04/01/2005, Page 134

About the author

Alexandra Robbins, winner of the prestigious 2014 John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism, is the author of four New York Times bestsellers, including Pledged and The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth. She has written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Times, and other publications, and has appeared on numerous television shows from 60 Minutes to The Colbert Report.
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