Tripping the Prom Queen (Audio)

Tripping the Prom Queen is an investigation of the dark secret of female friendships--the deep vein of female rivalry. Based on interviews with more than 500 women the social spectrum, Susan Shapiro Barash has discovered startling facts, including that 25 percent reported that they themselves had stolen another woman's husband, lover, boyfriend or job. She explodes the myth that women are generally supportive of one another. In fact, the competition between women is more vicious precisely because it is covert.