Don't Call Me Princess Essays on Girls, Women, Sex, and Life

"The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays--funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls' and women's progress (or lack thereof) in what Oren...

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Main Author: Orenstein, Peggy (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : HarperCollins, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Two girls in a room
  • Part 1. Starlets, scientists, artists, activists & other noteworthy women
  • Atsuko Chiba: the nonconformist
  • Gloria Steinem a,d Robin Morgan: Ms. fights for its life
  • Phoebe Gloeckner: a graphic life
  • Caitlin Moran: they don't make feminists this outrageous anymore
  • Elizabeth Blackburn: why science must adapt to women
  • Miranda Cosgrove: the good girl
  • Katherine Mary Flannigan: the story of my life
  • Part 2. Body language
  • Does Father know best?
  • Thirty-five and mortal: a breast cancer diary
  • The problem with pink
  • Mourning my miscarriage
  • Baby lust
  • Breast friends
  • Put to the test
  • What makes a woman a woman?
  • Call of the wild
  • Part 3. Not your mama's motherhood
  • The perfect mother trap
  • Your gamete, myself
  • Bringing down baby
  • Where I got Daisy
  • The femivore's dilemma
  • Part 4. Girls! Girls! Girls! (and one about boys)
  • Children are alone
  • What's wrong with Cinderella?
  • Playing at sexy
  • The Hillary lesson
  • The empowerment mystique
  • The fat trap
  • The battle over dress codes
  • Out Barbie vaginas, ourselves
  • When did porn become sex ed?
  • How to be a man in the age of Trump.