Don't Call Me Princess: Essays On Girls, Women, Sex, And Life

  • Author: Peggy Orenstein
  • Narrator: Peggy Orenstein
  • Publisher: HarperCollins USA
  • Duration: 10:07:44
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Synopsis

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 business in the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Review, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken ground and broken silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage, motherhood, breast cancer, princess culture and the importance of girls’ sexual pleasure. Her unique blend of investigative reporting, personal revelation and unexpected humor has made her books bestselling classics.

In Don’t Call Me Princess, Orenstein’s most resonant and important essays are available for the first time in collected form, updated with both an original introduction and personal reflections on each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice, the infertility industry, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the complications of girl culture are not merely timeless—they have, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, become more urgent in our contemporary political climate.

Don’t Call Me Princess offers a crucial evaluation of where we stand today as women—in our work lives, sex lives, as mothers, as partners—illuminating both how far we’ve come and how far we still have to go.

Chapters

  • 021 Bringing Down Baby

    Duration: 10min
  • 022 Where I Got Daisy

    Duration: 09min
  • 023 The Femivore's Dilemma

    Duration: 06min
  • 024 Part 4, Children Are Alone

    Duration: 45min
  • 025 What's Wrong with Cinderella

    Duration: 32min
  • 026 Playing at Sexy

    Duration: 07min
  • 027 The Hillary Lesson

    Duration: 06min
  • 028 The Empowerment Mystique

    Duration: 09min
  • 029 The Fat Trap

    Duration: 07min
  • 030 The Battle Over Dress Codes

    Duration: 07min
  • 031 Our Barbie Vaginas, Ourselves

    Duration: 09min
  • 032 When Did Porn Become Sex Ed

    Duration: 12min
  • 033 How to Be a Man in the Age of Trump

    Duration: 09min
  • 034 Credits

    Duration: 47s
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