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In the idyllic suburb of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, four of the town's most popular high school athletes were accused of raping a retarded young woman while nine of their teammates watched. Everyone was riveted by the question: What went wrong in this seemingly flawless American town?
Lefkowitz's sweeping narrative, informed by more than two hundred interviews and six years of research, recreates a hidden adolescent world that parents didn't - or wouldn't - see: a high school dominated by a band of predatory athletes, a teenage culture in which girls were frequently abused and humiliated at sybaritic and destructive parties, and a town that embraced its celebrity athletes, despite the havoc they created, as "our guys." But this is not just a picture of one suburb.
Lefkowitz finds that the unqualified adulation athletes received in Glen Ridge is echoed in communities throughout the nation. Glen Ridge is not an aberration. Parents, teachers, and anyone concerned with how children are raised, how their characters are formed, and how boys and girls learn to treat each other will want to read this important book.
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Crimes against, Crimes aganist, Gang rape, Moral conditions, Sexism, Social values, Women with mental disabilities, Mentally handicapped, Rape, People with mental disabilities, United states, moral conditions, Women, crimes against, New York Times reviewedPlaces
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Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
July 2003, Tandem Library
School & Library Binding
in English
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Our guys: the Glen Ridge rape and the secret life of the perfect suburb
1998, Vintage Books, Vintage
in English
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0375702695 9780375702693
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Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb
1997, University of California Press
in English
0520918037 9780520918030
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Our guys: the Glen Ridge rape and the secret life of the perfect suburb
1997, University of California Press
in English
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Our Guys: The Glen Ridge Rape and the Secret Life of the Perfect Suburb (Research on Men and Masculinities Series)
July 11, 1997, University of California Press
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