The New York Times bestselling author of Girls & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essaysâfunny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girlsâ and womenâs progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a âhalf-changed world.â
Named one of the â40 women who changed the media business in the last 40 yearsâ by Columbia Journalism Review, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most prominent, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken ground and broken silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage, motherhood, breast cancer, princess culture and the importance of girlsâ sexual pleasure. Her unique blend of investigative reporting, personal revelation and unexpected humor has made her books bestselling classics.
In Donât Call Me Princess, Orensteinâs most resonant and important essays are available for the first time in collected form, updated with both an original introduction and personal reflections on each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice, the infertility industry, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms, pink ribbon fear-mongering and the complications of girl culture are not merely timelessâthey have, like Margaret Atwoodâs The Handmaidâs Tale, become more urgent in our contemporary political climate.
Donât Call Me Princess offers a crucial evaluation of where we stand today as womenâin our work lives, sex lives, as mothers, as partnersâilluminating both how far weâve come and how far we still have to go.