Download Don't Call Me Princess: Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life AudioBook Free
The New York Times best-selling author of Women & Making love and Cinderella Ate My Girl offers her first ever collection of essays - funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply noticed pieces, attracted from three decades of writing, which trace young girls' and women's progress (or absence thereof) in what Orenstein once called a "half-changed world." Known as one of the "40 women who modified the advertising business within the last 40 years" by Columbia Journalism Review, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most dominant, unflinching feminist voices in our time. Her writing has cracked ground and cracked silences on subject areas as wide-ranging as miscarriage, motherhood, breasts cancers, princess culture and the importance of young girls' sexual joy. Her unique mixture of investigative reporting, personal revelation and sudden humor has made her literature best-selling classics. In Don't Call Me Princess, Orenstein's most resonant and important essays are available for the very first time in gathered form, updated with both an original launch and personal reflections on each piece. Her assumes reproductive justice, the infertility industry, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the problems of girl culture are not merely timeless - they may have, like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Story, become more immediate in our modern political climate. Don't Call Me Princess offers an essential analysis of where we stand today as women - in our work lives, sex lives, as moms, as companions - illuminating both what lengths we've come and what lengths we still have going.
