Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape - Tapa dura

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"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

"[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

"'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

"A smart, sobering guide to the sexual lives of young women today."--Ann Levin, Associated Press

"Peggy Orenstein sheds light on an important and too often misunderstood topic. Her reporting shows how a healthy and direct approach to sexuality is a key component of gender equality."--Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook and founder of LeanIn.Org

"An enlightening, sad and shocking look into the minds of teenagers and their views on casual sex, love and relationships."--Aimee Blanchette, Minneapolis Star Tribune

"Orenstein has compiled an eye-opening study of the way that girls and women in America think, feel, and act regarding sex.... The abundant information she provides will give parents and young girls the power to make informed decisions regarding sex."--Kirkus

Reseña del editor

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

A Time Top 10 Book of the Year · A San Francisco Chronicle Book of the Year

The author of the New York Times bestseller Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers a clear-eyed 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 and Sex Peggy 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 “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 with which to understand, and navigate, this complicated new world.