PINK THINK: BECOMING A WOMAN IN MANY UNEASY LESSONS Lynn Peril What do a toilet bowl and a woman's vagina have in common? They both need to be thoroughly cleaned with Lysol. At least that's what Lysol's advertising campaign recommended from the 1920s to the 1950s. In fact, their ads claimed that married women might not be satisfying their wifely duties and could be to blame for unhappy marital affairs because of unchecked feminine odor. Are you afraid yet? You should be. Because there's plenty more terrifying stuff to shock and even laugh yourself silly over in Lynn Peril's first novel, Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons. Peril spotlights "femorabilia" such as sex and dating manuals, etiquette and self-help books, as well as health, beauty and fashion guides and has released her alarming cultural history just in time to counteract a mediascape that has a much more pervasive influence on concepts of femininity than before. FULL INTERVIEW