Peggy Orenstein, “Girls and Sex”

Show #154 | Guest: New York Times best-selling author 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: A re-broadcast of our May 14, 2016 show featuring an interview with best-selling author and journalist Peggy Orenstein. The discussion centered on her book GIRLS AND SEX: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape. An important conversation about gender, myths, perception and the potent subtext of sex in the world of young people growing up today.