Peggy Orenstein

The COVID pandemic propelled many people to change their lives in ways large and small. Some adopted puppies. Others stress-baked. Peggy Orenstein, a lifelong knitter, went just a little further. To keep herself engaged and cope with a series of seismic shifts in family life, she set out to make a garment from the ground up: learning to shear sheep, spin and dye yarn, then knitting herself a sweater. Orenstein hoped the project would help her process...

A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. The mothers and fathers of tomorrow's women have little idea what their daughters are up to sexually or how they feel about it. Drawing on in-depth interviews with more than seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons,

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Peggy Orenstein, acclaimed author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Schoolgirls, offers a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the dark side of a pretty and pink culture confronting girls at every turn as they grow into adults.

Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters

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"¿Las chicas de hoy tienen suficientes herramientas para explorar el sexo de modo responsable, seguro y sin temor? Como madre y periodista, Peggy Orenstein se enfrentó a la realidad de que el gusto de su hija por las princesas estaba por terminar. En su lugar vendría la adolescencia y, con ella, un sinfín de preguntas sobre el sexo, la masturbación, el acoso, el ligue y más. Basada en entrevistas a profundidad con más de setenta adolescentes,...