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Gina Barreca

Gina Barreca

Gina Barreca’s classic on women’s humor, They Used to Call Me Snow White, But I Drifted, was followed by Perfect Husbands (And Other Fairy Tales), Sweet Revenge, Babes in Boyland: A Personal History of Coeducation in the Ivy League and It’s Not That I’m Bitter, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World. Author of eleven books, she’s also the editor of seventeen others. Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English Literature at the University of Connecticut, Gina has appeared on American Masters, This American Life, the TODAY show, CNN, the BBC and Oprah. Barreca’s been published by the New York Times, the Chicago Tribune, the LA Times, Cosmopolitan, Forbes, The Chronicle of Higher Education and the Harvard Business Review. Her blog for Psychology Today has more than 8 million views. You can find her in the Library of Congress or the make-up aisle at Walgreens. Learn more at www.ginabarreca.com.

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On Not Minding One’s Own Business

I’d been taking notes towards the idea of writing a book titled Gina School since I attended an anniversary party in 2019.   Seated on one side next to the successful adult daughter of the couple whom we were gathered to celebrate, and flanked on the other side by her boyfriend,…
Gina Barreca
October 16, 2025