Reading List
Peggy Orenstein
Journalist and Author
Peggy Orenstein is an American journalist who writes about girls, women and gender, and a longtime contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Her first book, Schoolgirls, looked at girls’ confidence and education. Waiting for Daisy is a memoir of infertility and cancer. Cinderella Ate My Daughter examined the princess culture sold to young girls, and Girls & Sex and Boys & Sex explored how teenagers learn about sex and relationships. In Unraveling she spends a year making a sweater from scratch, starting with the sheep.
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Pink Brain, Blue Brain
by Lise Eliot
“That book was transformative for me. Lise looked through every study on gender and brain research and broke them down for the general reader. Science was not my forte but the book laid out neuroscience in such a clear way that I found it easy to understand and even entertaining to read.” — via Interview, February 2012
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Packaging Girlhood
by Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown
“It was really influential for me. Brown and Lamb offer a lot of different ideas that I talk about in Cinderella Ate My Daughter. One idea that really stuck with me is that girls are presented with two options by the culture that surrounds them: Being for the boys or being one of the boys.” — via Interview, February 2012
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Packaging Boyhood
by Lyn Mikel Brown, Sharon Lamb, Mark Tappan
“This book talks a lot about how the images marketed to boys may be unhealthy for our sons and for our kids’ relationships. When I speak and am asked about the cultural constraints on boys, I direct people to Packaging Boyhood.” — via Interview, February 2012
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Odd Girl Out
by Rachel Simmons
“Odd Girl Out looks at relational aggression with girls, which is bullying, basically. It breaks down how adolescent girls relate to one another and why it matters – the mean girl stuff that gets dismissed. Simmons takes seriously the issues that girls have with one another. She doesn’t just expose the problem. Simmons helps parents, educators and kids see how to build respective, supportive communities. The new edition includes a whole lot on how to navigate social media. It’s a great resource.” — via Interview, February 2012
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Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores
by James Howe · Children's
“Horace and Morris but Mostly Dolores presents gender dynamics with a little more complexity and a little more realism than a typical agenda book. So it’s about how each creature can be an individual and how kids can find common interests that aren’t defined by gender.” — via Interview, February 2012
