Wendy Shalit (/ʃəˈliːt/; born 1975) is an American conservative writer and author[1] who has written the books A Return to Modesty: Discovering the Lost Virtue, published by Free Press in 1999;[2][3] Girls Gone Mild: Young Rebels Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good, published by Random House in 2007; and The Good Girl Revolution: Young Rebels with Self-Esteem and High Standards, published by Random House in 2008.
A Return to Modesty has attracted much controversy, most notably earning her attacks from Katha Pollitt in The New York Times[4] and Larry Flynt in Hustler magazine.
[citation needed] But, according to the website D1NT, Shalit received many letters of support[5] from young women who were disenchanted with the sexual revolution, prompting her to start an online support forum called ModestlyYours[6] with 20 bloggers "of all ages and backgrounds whose voices are not normally heard in the mainstream (or even non-mainstream) media."
Mona Charen has called ModestlyYours an "antidote to the vulgarity that is shoved in our faces from magazine covers, television, raunch radio, movies, and shows ... Shalit names a 'rebel of the month' on the site, choosing young women who exemplify modesty, intelligence, and integrity.
"[7] Shalit's second book, Girls Gone Mild: Young Women Reclaim Self-Respect and Find It's Not Bad to Be Good, was released on June 26, 2007.