What's this Pledged book?
 

I liked today's story in the New York Times about feminist chapters, it was kind of interesting. And then at the bottom it mentions this book Pledged, which I've never heard of. I looked it up and the writer went undercover in a sorority to write a book?? How did that even happen??

Here is the feminist article, anyways.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/fa...ists.html?_r=0

There are many many many threads about it on here if you search "alexandra robbins." It's a piece of garbage. The NYT using it for a source on their article is kind of like the New Jersey Tourism Board hiring Snooki and Pauly D.

heh

You can pick up a copy at your local library.

ETA
You can get a free e-book here-->https://sites.google.com/site/wbsifm...-of-Sororities

Pledged is great!!!... if you have a table that's a little wobbly and you need something to stick under the leg.

^^^ LOL

I admit it - I bought a copy. It on the 99 cents table at my favorite book store. And I still haven't read it!

I bought it when it first came out. I read it, laughed and stuck it in my library; the section of greek-fiction. :p

I read it and within the prologue I decided that Alexandra was the "girl" who didn't get the bid and was left standing alone in Texas while all the other girls got bids and her mom and grandmother were waiting at the legacy house for her. She then grows up into a person who hates sororities and does her damndest to bring them down.

Alexandra Robbins went to Yale and it is rumored she was in one of the secret societies. Not one as prestigious as Skull and Bones, but a society geared toward writing in the arts.

She visited my university and spoke at the journalism school during the time she would have been doing the "research" for Pledged. The timing of her visit and some of her descriptions makes me think that my school in one of the schools she used for the "characters" in her book. I have thought so since the book came out.

I was at the NGLA when she was there, I think. I had a strange sense of remembrance when I read some of the things she references. I don't recall exactly what at this point, but when I read it years ago something struck me about what she wrote- as if I was in the meeting or something.