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Orenstein Peggy - Girls & Sex Navigating The Complicated New Landscape - Paperback
Orenstein Peggy - Girls & Sex Navigating The Complicated New Landscape - Paperback
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Description: NEW YORK Times Bestseller A Time Top 10 Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear - eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post - princess stage high school through college and reveals how they are negotiating it. 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.
Title: Girls & Sex Navigating The Complicated New Landscape
Author(s): Orenstein Peggy
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062209740
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/7/2017
Description: NEW YORK Times Bestseller A Time Top 10 Book of the Year A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear - eyed picture of the new sexual landscape girls face in the post - princess stage high school through college and reveals how they are negotiating it. 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.
Title: Girls & Sex Navigating The Complicated New Landscape
Author(s): Orenstein Peggy
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780062209740
Pages: 336 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 3/7/2017