Don't call me princess : essays on girls, women, sex, and life
(Book)

In Don't Call Me Princess, Peggy Orenstein's 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 timelessthey have, like Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, become more urgent in our contemporary political climate. Don't Call Me Princess offers a crucial evaluation of where we stand today as womenin our work lives, sex lives, as mothers, as partnersilluminating both how far weve come and how far we still have to go.