In Deep Radio - PEGGY ORENSTEIN


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A Special Evening Edition of In Deep with Angie Coiro featuring Peggy Orenstein

Monday, May 9, 2016, 7:30  p.m. 

Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

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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, renowned journalist Peggy Orenstein goes where most others fear to tread, pulling back the curtain on the hidden truths, hard lessons, and important possibilities of girls’ sex lives in the modern world.

 

While the media has focused—often to sensational effect—on the rise of casual sex and the prevalence of rape on campus, in Girls and Sex Peggy Orenstein brings much more to the table. She examines the ways in which porn and all its sexual myths have seeped into young people’s lives; what it means to be the “the perfect slut” and why many girls scorn virginity; the complicated terrain of hookup culture and the unfortunate realities surrounding assault. In Orenstein’s hands these issues are never reduced to simplistic “truths;” rather, her powerful reporting opens up a dialogue on a potent, often silent, subtext of American life today—giving readers comprehensive and in-depth information with which to understand, and navigate, this complicated new world.


Peggy Orenstein is the New York Times-bestselling author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Waiting for Daisy, Flux, and Schoolgirls. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, she has been published in USA Today, Parenting, Salon, The New Yorker, and other publications, and has contributed commentary to NPR's All Things Considered. She lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter.

Click HERE to check out Peggy's interview heard on NPR's Fresh Air.

 

 

 

 

 

Event date: 
Monday, May 9, 2016 - 7:30pm
Event address: 
1010 El Camino Real
Menlo Park, CA 94025-4349
Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture By Peggy Orenstein Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780061711534
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Published: Harper Paperbacks - January 31st, 2012