Orenstein, Peggy
Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays--funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls' and women's progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a "half-changed world." Named one of the "40 women who changed the media...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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Summary: The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent. Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more than who she is. Somewhere between the exhilarating rise of Girl...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2011
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Orenstein, Peggy
Summary: "Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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Summary: The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, lifelong knitter Peggy Orenstein set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater. Orenstein shares her year-long journey as daughter, wife, mother,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2000
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Summary: Presents an analysis of the new sexual landscape faced by girls in today's high schools and colleges, revealing hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities in girls' modern-world sex lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2016
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Summary: The author sets out to make a sweater from scratch--shearing, spinning, dyeing wool--and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023