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ReviewsMore Reviews To Come "[An] often startling study of college sororities.... Robbins's book, both
fascinating and eye opening, tells us a great deal about well-to-do young
women in America and about the pressures on them.... Robbins is a 1998
Yale graduate who has become something of a media celebrity largely due to
her two earlier nonfiction books, both of which dealt with various aspects
of collegiate or post-collegiate life. Robbins writes with empathy and
affection for her college-age subjects... many of whom are "sweet, smart,
successful and kind. "Outside my Sorority Life obsession, I didn't know much about the Greek world -- I had my stereotypes, but I wasn't too
familiar with the facts. Then I read Alexandra Robbins' Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities (Hyperion $24). For her
exposé, Robbins went undercover as a college student, after being told that Greek organizations don't talk to the press.
The narrative, which follows these girls through pledge hazing, hook-ups, sister drama, and date rape, is better than reality
TV - it's riveting." "Funny but alarming" — People "We've all heard the sordid tales coming out of the Greek scene ? the heavy drinking, the startlingly old-fashioned values, the exclusivity and racism, the date rapes, the hazing deaths. Robbins folds all of these weightier issues into her narrative, while also offering an often humorous snapshot of today's college youth." — Salon "Fascinating and, in the end, highly alarming. Pledged is amazing in the same way that reality TV is amazing: It's the car crash you can't take your eyes off of. . . . Every parent of a college-bound daughter should read this book. And Alexandra Robbins: You go girl." — The New Republic "Alexandra Robbins rips into the secret, sordid underbelly of sororities." — Vanity Fair "Compelling reading..." — The Atlanta Journal Constitution "A juicy read" — Pensacola News Journal "Fascinating look at sororities" — CNN "The wild sorority sisters in Pledged make the brothers of Delta House look like altar boys." — Time Out New York "Cosmo contributor, Oprah guest, and Skull and Bones investigator Robbins offers a titillating take on sisterhood gone mad." — Kirkus "Racy" — Newsday "This book is a juicy expose on one (unnamed) university's Greek system. Alexandra spent a school year following four
girls through two sororities, where everybody diets like crazy, has random hookups, and drinks a lot.... You have to
read these shocking true stories." "Robbins' account of life inside the sorority house... makes for fascinating reading.... Where the author really
scores is in her analysis of why otherwise intelligent and sensitive women would sacrifice their independence, and often
self-respect, for the sake of an artificially engineered secret society." 
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