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
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
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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