Navigating a Generation Gap: Parents, their Girls, and Sex

Show #127 | Guest: Peggy Orenstein was named one of its “40 women who changed the media business in the past 40 years” by The Columbia Journalism Review in 2012. In addition to Girls and Sex, she’s the author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy as well as Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Kids, Love and Life in a Half-Changed World and the classic SchoolGirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem and the Confidence Gap. You can find her on Facebook and on Twitter, @peggyorenstein. | Show Summary: Peggy Orenstein joins Angie Coiro for a discussion of her new book GIRLS AND SEX: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. These two award-winning journalists sat down on a Monday evening at Kepler’s Books for an important conversation about gender, myths, perception and the potent subtext of sex in the world of young people growing up today.