The Bust Guide to the New Girl Order
by Debbie Stoller and Marcelle Karp

Paperback - 288 pages (August 1999)
Penguin USA (Paper); ISBN: 0140277749

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Synopsis:

Both a literary magazine and a chronicle of girl culture, BUST was born in 1993. With contributors who are funny, fierce, and too smart to be anything but feminist, BUST is the original grrrl zine, with a base of loyal female fans--all those women who know that Glamour is garbage, Vogue is vapid, and Cosmo is clueless.

The BUST Guide to the New Girl Order contains brand new, funny, sharp, trenchant essays along with some of the best writings from the magazine: Courtney Love's (unsolicited) piece on Bad Girls; the already immortal "Don'ts For Boys"; an interview with girl-hero Judy Blume; and lots of other shocking, titillating, truthful articles. A kind of Our Bodies, Ourselves for Generation XX, The BUST Guide to the New Girl Order is destined to become required reading for today's hip urban girl and her admirers.

Reviews:

A reader from arizona , September 1, 1999
It's A Relief For Women Out There
I bought the book today and can not put it down. It's raunchiness and openness will definitely help other women express their sexual beings and their tiredness of society. It swings open the door that women aren't barbie dolls and that they have wants and needs and that we shouldn't see ourselves as anything but beautiful. It's definitely one of those you could read and reread again and again.

A reader from Charleston, SC , August 23, 1999
Bust Rules
I have been reading BUST magazine since it was a little bitty baby and it makes me glad to be a girl. I can't think of a better tribute to the readers and staff than to put out a book like this. It has a lot of essays that formerly appeared in the magazine (which I was happy about since I have passed around most of my back issues to girlfriends so much that I'm not even sure where some of them are - and back issues are hard to find - just try ordering them from their web site....most of them are sold out!)

This is a great book for teenage girls, young women, middle aged women, old women.... Women who read The Rules should be forced to read the BUST Guide for their own good. My nieces will all be given a copy as they turn 13.

Five great big kisses to the awesome women who thunk up BUST and this book!!!

A reader from Maryland, USA , August 13, 1999
I am in love with this book, this wonderful stack of pages!
This book is so exceptionally superb! This should be given to all young girls. I have been waiting for this book for months and I now keep it by my bed and use it as my bible. I cannot wait to one day let my own teenage daughter read it. Hopefully by then the girl species will have evolved as well as the great BUST-y ladies who tell their stories in this fabulous book.

A reader from Tallahassee, FL , August 11, 1999
If you only buy one book this year, make it this one
The gals at Bust are both insightful and witty and have an uncanny way of being frank and funny at the same time. Bust is everything you've always wanted in a magazine but never got from mags like Cosmo and Glamour. This book is the essential guide to the new girl order and is fantastic if you've missed some Bust issues. Five stars, baby!

A reader from Chicago , August 9, 1999
A must-have for every female!
This book was marvelous, just as BUST magazine is marvelous. I wish everything I read made me as happy to be female as this did. All of the essays, stories, etc. were right on and captured the essence of the girl experience. This should be required reading for anyone with breasts.