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     European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 29, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Women and relationships. Crown publishers Anka Radakovich is the author of the wild girls club and a columnist for details Magazine. By Susan Campbell the Hartford courant Hill most Flat chested girls my. Age were still skipping rope i was being approached by strange men outside the school Yard. One gave me his card and said he wanted me to pose for a a fashion Magazine called Frederick a of Hollywood i regret now that i  v. A and Quot we flirted with each other on the phone telling each other what great kissers we were. And just in Case he was really Good looking i slipped in that i had larger than average breasts. A i have larger. Than average hands a he replied. I made a  a Anka Radakovich details Magazine. And that a some of her cleaner prose. Anka Radakovich 29, writes of body parts and male prostitutes and test driving condoms in her sex column for details Magazine. A compilation of her columns the wild girls club Crown just came out. A a a. A a a a a a a a a a a a. Quot Anka is the coolest a said a Jean Carroll of Elle Magazine who has written her own explicit advice column. Quot i worship  what a happening Here there have always been forthright women who explore topics such As sex and esteem but what about forthright women who also write a and write Well a of matters of the heart and other More mysterious. Body parts and manage to get their stuff published like Anka Radakovich. Or . Carroll. Or Cynthia he incl of Playboy. In the past few years these women have been showing up All Over the place a even Newsweek where Heimel wrote about the Bobbitt trials. Quot i to a pretty new for a woman to write about something that s supposed to be part of a Guy category a like pleasure a said Regina Barreca an English and feminist theory professor at the University of Connecticut and author of several books including perfect husbands to other fairy tales demystifying marriage men and Romance. A i think women writers have always been pretty Salty and now they re Able to write in their own voice a said Roy Blount jr., a humorist whose latest novel is camels Are easy comedy s hard. Blount  a column about getting the sword into the new York times. Quot probably George Eliot. Would have written like that if men would have print a cd  a a a a a a a a a a / a sidestepping novelists such As Erica Jong a time line of the phenomenon starts with Helen Gurley Brown of cosmopolitan Magazine and sex and  girl Fame. In the mid-60s, Brown was the first of the Breed to write about and for smart successful and sexy women. One female humorist Calls her the Quot Amelia Earhart of women a  and then perhaps Nora Ephron Mother of Quot feminism used to be about splitting the Bill. Now its knowing what your cervix looks  add to her author scriptwriter fran Leibowitz and he incl author of such books As if you can to live without me Why Arentt you dead yet Atlantic monthly press. A former new York daily news columnist 1 Teiml launched her career As an essayist and playwright with prose like Quot that s Why i stayed with him so Long probably. I  stand going through it All again. Sure he might be u trifle wild and intractable i kept telling myself but at least i know ill get Laid tonight and tomorrow nigh i. At least someone will go to the movies with me and not try to hold my  a i think they re just being forthright about what a going on in most Peoples minds anyway a said Jeff Buchman who. Teaches courses on pop culture at the fashion Institute of technology in new York. A the difference is that women never had a voice. I love to read these pieces. Most men want to know what a going on in women a minds. This is kind of a leg up into that. I mean its very very stimulating very erotic. A a in be eavesdropped on enough conversations Between women to know that a a whole world that men Are never privy to Quot he said. Quot unless that is you re eavesdropping. You almost do get that feeling when you read  a the genre is hardly limited to columnists it in. Eludes cartoonists such As Alison Bechlet who draws Dykes to watch out for and Nicole hoi Lander Chicago based creator of the strip Sylvia starring a frazzle haired Dame with a cigarette that flaps from her Mouth As she dispenses her Wisdom. To wit this is Sylvia talking to an opponent of the equal rights amendment on television. The woman is afraid that if the Era is passed women will have to fight alongside men and then a a How a a decent woman going to relieve herself on the Battlefield a says Sylvia Quot Alma Why done to you try holding it until  Are there those who do not see the humor or Beauty of these pieces a letters i get letters a said Carroll. A i read them but nobody knows who i am Honey. Writers Are very quiet and we done to go out  while men May read these women a articles books and cartoons for a clue into the female psyche women May read them because said Barreca a these women say things we re too afraid to say and they say them in a Way that wont scare us to read  Carroll a contributing editor to Esquire Magazine started writing an advice column for Elle Magazine a year ago when new management wanted to attract a different audience. 1 a i thought it was a Brilliant move to bring me Over As advice columnist because i am of course inf Ahi ble a Carroll said. A women Are still being tightly Edi Ltd / fed because they re not supposed to talk that Way and because editors say the readers wont accept it. We live in a very puritanical society. This society still believes in marriage Quot Carroll recently profiled Lyle Lovett the Singer actor husband of Julia Roberts who she said a ripped off my clothes journalistic ally speaking of course at every turn in this Storn she managed to ask him about the size of his Penis a question he declined to answer. /. Tracing a time line of no holds barred female humorists Carroll starts with Brown goes through Hei Mel and Leibowitz and then stops at the youngest and perhaps Queen of the newest crop a Radako Vich. A a a a a when the new York times interviewed Radako Vich she said a i never get tired of having sex or writing about it a a a Page 22 sunday a May 29, 1994  
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