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Peggy Orenstein | |
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Born | November 22, 1961 Minneapolis, Minnesota |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Oberlin College |
Genre | Non-fiction |
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Children | Daisy Tomoko |
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Peggy Orenstein (born November 22, 1961) is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Boys & Sex, Girls & Sex, Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy, as well as Don’t Call Me Princess, Flux, and the classic Schoolgirls. Her TED talk has been viewed over 5.5 million times.
A frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine,[1] she was named in 2012 by The Columbia Journalism Review as one of its "40 Women Who Changed the Media Business in the Past 40 Years".[2] She is Jewish.