And given everything she’s seen, she’d be the first to say that being female in what’s still a “half-changed world” is no fairy tale. Throughout her career, Orenstein has observed at close range how the media and popular culture have colluded to serve up distorted visions of womanhood to girls. And in 2007, Orenstein published a memoir, Waiting for Daisy, which recounted the challenges-infertility, cancer, and many more-she faced in becoming a mother.
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Her second, 2000s Flux: Women on Sex, Work, Love, Kids, & Life in a Half-Changed World, examined the systemic biases and roadblocks women face in creating lives that balance personal and professional demands. Orenstein’s first book, the 1994 study Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self-Esteem, and the Confidence Gap, explored the adolescent roots and gendered nature of the crippling self-doubt that plagues so many adult women. But her work itself is dedicated to asserting the ways in which “having it all”-or trying to-in a world built to the measure of men can have profound effects on women and girls. She’s an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in such distinguished publications as the New Yorker, Elle, Vogue, Discover, Mother Jones, and O: The Oprah Magazine.
Subscribe today!įrom the outside, Peggy Orenstein epitomizes feminist success. This article appears in our Spring 2011 issue, Primal.
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