Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

Orenstein, Peggy

4.07

10,707 ratings by Goodreads

9781504696678: Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape

ISBN 10: 1504696670 ISBN 13: 9781504696678

Publisher: Blackstone Pub, 2016

The New York Times best-selling author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter presents an analysis of the new sexual landscape faced by girls in today's high schools and colleges, revealing hidden truths, hard lessons and important possibilities in girls' modern-world sex lives. Read by the author. Simultaneous.

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Review:

-Provocative and thoughtful.... Both an examination of sexual culture and a guide on how to improve it.... The breadth of Orenstein's reporting ... is impressive.---Laura Stepp, Washington Post

-Nonsensational but deeply entertaining.... A must-read.---People, Book of the Week

-A nuanced read for anyone who remembers being a young woman and anyone who is raising the next generation of girls (and boys) for whom we hope the future holds sexual satisfaction, not pain or disappointment.---Rebecca Traister, More

-Thought-provoking. . .Girls & Sex is full of thoughtful concern and empathetic questions.---Cindi Leive, New York Times Book Review, cover review

-I'm not going to tell you to go right now and buy a copy.... I'm going to tell you to buy two copies: One for yourself, and one for the teenager in your life.... Refuses to be judgmental or doom and gloom. Instead, it offers something else -- a demand for education, enlightenment, and ultimately, the radical notion of equal satisfaction.---Adrian Liang, Amazon Best Book of the Month citation

-Girls & Sex should be mandatory for anyone who cares about the present and future cultural landscape for girls, women, humans. I seriously want to quit my job and tour the country, furiously hawking Peggy Orenstein's insightful, important book.---Rashida Jones, actress, writer, producer

-[An] important new book.... Her writing is clear and compelling, her analysis is incisive and thorough, and her findings are downright troubling.---Sharon Holbrook, Washington Post

-Fascinating.... A wise and sharply argued look at how girls are navigating 'the complicated new landscape' of sex and sexuality.---Economist

-An intimate view of the sex lives of young women in the United States. While revealing disturbing common threads... Orenstein brings levity to this fraught topic.---Elle

-'Girls & Sex' may do more to change how sex education is rethought and how parents and daughters discuss pleasure and sexuality than any book since the landmark 'Our Bodies, Ourselves.'---Tamara Straus, San Francisco Chronicle

From the Back Cover:

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a groundbreaking 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 & Sex, 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 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 to understand and navigate this complicated new world.

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