Liberation from Libertinism

Wendy Shalit, author of A Return to Modesty (1999), was raised in a secular Jewish family and became an observant Jew as an adult. In this book, she contends that a culture failing to inculcate broad respect for the sexual modesty that today’s observant Jewish women—and yesterday’s women writ large—visibly put at the center of their dress and lives will be hostile first to women and then to humanity itself.