By Wendy Shalit
Simon & Schuster. 291 pages. £16.99
ISBN 0 684 84316 1
I knew she was chronically sick, of course, but I first became aware of the death of modesty a few years ago when, in the hairdressers, I unwittingly flicked through an issue of Cosmopolitan magazine.
What I read there made my hair stand on end, giving the hairdresser a substantial challenge. Subsequent evidence confirmed it: modesty is dead and buried, done to death through the determined coalition of the sexual revolution and the feminist movement.
