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Peggy Orenstein (born November 22, 1961) is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy, as well as Don’t Call Me Princess, Flux, and the classic Schoolgirls. Her TED talk has been viewed over 5.5 million times. A frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine, she was named in 2012 by The Columbia Journalism Review as one of its "40 Women Who Changed the Media Business in the Past 40 Years". Writing In books and magazine articles Peggy Orenstein writes about the politics of everyday life, usually relating to gender. Her book Schoolgirls was groundbreaking in its discussion of educational inequity. In Flux she explored the life choices of a generation of ethnically diverse, middle class women in their mid-20s to mid-40s. Waiting for Daisy was her memoir of infertility, cancer and motherhood. In Cinderella Ate My Daughter she exposed the “girlie girl” culture being marketed to young children. Girls & Sex and Boys & Sex broke silences around teenage sexual behavior, sexualized media, and hookup culture, calling for healthier, open dialogue between parents and children as well as expanded positive-based sex and relationship education in schools. She has also written extensively about breast cancer and the limits of mammographic screening and early detection. Recognition Orenstein has been named by the Columbia Journalism Review "40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years."She has also been recognized by the "Council on Contemporary Families for her "Outstanding Coverage of Family Diversity.”She has received two “Books for a Better Life” awards.Her magazine work has also been honored by the Commonwealth Club of California, the National Women’s Political Caucus of California, and Planned Parenthood Federation of America.She was the recipient of fellowships from the United States-Japan Foundation and the Asian Cultural Council. Selected works SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. New York: Random House, 1994. ISBN 9780385425766, OCLC 475227709 Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World New York : Anchor Books, 2001. ISBN 9780385498876, OCLC 473835765 Waiting for Daisy New York: Bloomsbury, 2007. ISBN 9781596912106, OCLC 192169835 Cinderella Ate My Daughter New York, NY : Harper, 2012. ISBN 9780061711534, OCLC 808058076 Girls & Sex New York, NY: Harper, 2016. ISBN 9780062209740, OCLC 974491998 Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life. Harper Paperbacks, 2018. ISBN 978-0-06-268890-3, OCLC 1023574411 Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity, 2020. ISBN 978-0062666970References External links Official website Peggy Orenstein at IMDb "The Divine Sisterhood", The Columbia Journalism Review, July 2012. Appearances on C-SPAN. Discover the Peggy Orenstein popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Peggy Orenstein books.

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    A Better Man

    Michael Ian Black

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    Secrets Of The People Whisperer

    Perry Wood

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    Schoolgirls

    Peggy Orenstein

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    Every Parent Should Read This Book

    Ben Brooks

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    The Psychology of Awakening

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    The Buddhist view of the mind how it works, how it goes wrong, how to put it right is increasingly being recognised as profound and highly practical by scientists, counsellors an...

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    New Millennium Boyz

    Alex Kazemi

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    Elisa Medhus M.D.

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    We Need to Talk

    Ian Williamson

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