Antedating of "Chick Lit"

[Benjamin Torbert]

When does [the pejorative] "clit Lit" come from?  I remember my
[conservative, misogynist] father using that phrase at least that early?

BT


On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 9:01 PM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>wrote:

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> The OED's first citation for "chick lit" is dated 1993.  According to
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> edia, it appears five years earlier in this book:
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> Don M. Betterton, Alma mater: unusual stories and little-known facts from
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> merica's college campuses, Peterson's Guides, Princeton, N.J. (1988); p.
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