Peggy Orenstein, Author . Bloomsbury $23.95 (228p) ISBN 978-1-59691-017-1
The author of Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap
, Orenstein now offers a very personal account of her road to becoming a mother. Orenstein was a happily married 35-year-old when she decided she wanted to have a baby....
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Peggy Orenstein, Harper, $25.99 (272p) ISBN 978-0-06-171152-7
Orenstein, who has written about girls for nearly two decades (Schoolgirls), finds today's pink and princess-obsessed girl culture grating when it threatens to lure her own young daughter, Daisy. In her quest to determine whether princess mania is...
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Peggy Orenstein, Author Anchor Books $15.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-385-42576-6
Following a 1990 poll which found that girls suffer plummeting self-esteem and reduced expectations as they enter adolescence, journalist Orenstein visited two California middle schools to take a more personal look at the statistics. (Oct.)
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Peggy Orenstein, Author Doubleday Books $25 (336p) ISBN 978-0-385-49886-9
Drawing on interviews she conducted with more than 200 women, Orenstein (SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap) presents an intimate and politically astute vision of how women in their 20s, 30s and 40s negotiate life in a...
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Peggy Orenstein. HarperCollins, $26.99 (336p) ISBN 978-0-06-220972-6
Bestselling journalist Orenstein follows up Cinderella Ate My Daughter with a look at what happens when the little princess hits puberty. The result is an eye-opening, sometimes horrifying look at sex for today’s girls and young adults. Through...
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Peggy Orenstein. Harper, $16.99 trade paper (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-268890-3
Drawn from over three decades of work, this middling collection of essays by Orenstein (Girls & Sex) explores many of the same topics as her previous books: parenthood, cancer, infertility, and body image. Orenstein is at her best and most personal...
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Peggy Orenstein. Harper, $27.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-06-266697-0
Journalist Orenstein (Girls & Sex) talks with high school– and college-age boys and men about sex in this candid and fascinating portrait of young American masculinity. Conducting more than 100 interviews with males ages 16–22 throughout America,...
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Peggy Orenstein. Harper, $27.99 (256) ISBN 978-0-063-08172-7
Journalist Orenstein (Boys & Sex: Young Men on Hookups, Love, Porn, Consent, and Navigating the New Masculinity) recounts her yearlong endeavor to make a sweater from scratch in this insightful memoir. Inspired by her Eastern European ancestors and...
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Peggy Orenstein, Author, American Association of University Women, With Doubleday Books $23.5 (335p) ISBN 978-0-385-42575-9
The American Association of University Women's 1990 study, Shortchanging Girls, Shortchanging America, created a great deal of controversy with its contention that American girls, especially in contrast to boys, experience a dramatic loss of self-con
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