Peggy Orenstein

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1) Unraveling: what I learned about life while shearing sheep, dyeing wool, and making the world's ugliest sweater

Author

Orenstein, Peggy

Publisher

Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date

[2023]

Language

English

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The author sets out to make a sweater from scratch -- shearing, spinning, dyeing wool -- and in the process discovers how we find our deepest selves through craft.

2) Girls & sex: navigating the complicated new landscape

Author

Orenstein, Peggy

Pub. Date

[2016]

Language

English

Appears on list

NYT - Parenthood and Family

Formats

Book, Audio

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A generation gap has emerged between parents and their girls. Even in this age of helicopter parenting, 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 over seventy young women and a wide range of psychologists, academics, and experts, journalist Peggy Orenstein pulls back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important...

3) Boys & sex: young men on hookups, love, porn, consent, and navigating the new masculinity

Author

Orenstein, Peggy

Publisher

Harper, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers

Pub. Date

[2020]

Language

English

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"Peggy Orenstein's Girls & Sex broke ground, shattered taboos, and galvanized conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unintended effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. To understand girls and sex, we also need to talk about boys and sex. Today's young men are subject to the same cultural forces as their female peers. They are steeped...