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Peggy Orenstein

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November 22, 1961

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Peggy Orenstein is a best-selling author and a contributing writer for The New York Times Magazine. Orenstein has also written for such publications as The Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Vogue, Elle, Discover, More, Mother Jones, Salon, O: The Oprah Magazine, and The New Yorker, and has contributed commentaries to NPR’s All Things Considered. Her articles have been anthologized multiple times, including in The Best American Science Writing. She has been a keynote speaker at numerous colleges and conferences and has been featured on, among other programs, "Nightline," "Good Morning America," "Today," NPR’s "Fresh Air" and Morning Edition, and CBC’s "As It Happens."

Orenstein was recognized for her “Outstanding Coverage of Family Diversity,” by ...more

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Why I Wasn’t Excited About the “First Black Disney Princess”

Back in 2009, a lot of people asked me what I thought about Princess and the Frog, the film Disney said trumpeted as featuring its first African American princess. My gut reaction was, I’ll get excited when they release the film with their third black Disney princess. I mean, leaving aside for a moment whether it’s progress to make the princess industrial complex an equal opportunity exploiter, wh

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	Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture 3.67 avg rating — 16,073 ratings — published 2011 — 16 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape 4.07 avg rating — 10,290 ratings — published 2016 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity 4.24 avg rating — 5,579 ratings — published 2020 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Unraveling: What I Learned About Life While Shearing Sheep, Dyeing Wool, and Making the World's Ugliest Sweater 3.94 avg rating — 2,599 ratings — published 2023 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother 3.66 avg rating — 1,513 ratings — published 2007 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap 4.05 avg rating — 1,272 ratings — published 1994 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life by Peggy Orenstein, Peggy Orenstein (Narrator) 3.77 avg rating — 799 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, and Life in a Half-Changed World 3.82 avg rating — 737 ratings — published 2000 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When We Were Free to Be: Looking Back at a Children's Classic and the Difference It Made by Lori Rotskoff (Editor), Laura L. Lovett (Editor), Joe Kelly (Contributor) 3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Women On Work, Love, Children And Life 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2000 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do not have girlfriends. God forbid Snow White should give Sleeping Beauty a little support. Let's review: princesses avoid female bonding. Their goals are to be saved by a prince, get married, and be taken care of the rest of their lives.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

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“But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

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“The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.”
― Peggy Orenstein, Waiting for Daisy: A Tale of Two Continents, Three Religions, Five Infertility Doctors, an Oscar, an Atomic Bomb, a Romantic Night, and One Woman's Quest to Become a Mother

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What should be our September Non-Fiction Group Read? (Feminism/Gender Studies)

Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism by bell hooks

20 votes 25.6%

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft

13 votes 16.7%

The Floating Brothel: The Extraordinary True Story of an Eighteenth-Century Ship and Its Cargo of Female Convicts by Siân Rees

10 votes 12.8%

The Obstacle Race: The Fortunes of Women Painters and Their Work by Germaine Greer

9 votes 11.5%

Unbowed by Wangari Maathai

7 votes 9.0%

The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction by Emily Martin

6 votes 7.7%

Where We Stand: Class Matters by bell hooks

5 votes 6.4%

The Female Experience: An American Documentary by Gerda Lerner

4 votes 5.1%

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape by Peggy Orenstein

4 votes 5.1%

78 total votes

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