THE BRAND NEW York Times bestselling writer of Young ladies & Sex and Cinderella Ate My Daughter delivers her first ever collection of essays-funny, poignant, deeply personal and sharply observed pieces, drawn from three decades of writing, which trace girls’ and women’s progress (or lack thereof) in what Orenstein once called a “half-changed world.”

Named among the “40 women who transformed the media business within the last 40 years” by Columbia Journalism Evaluate, Peggy Orenstein is one of the most on the subject of Don’t Call Me Princess: Essays in Girls, Women, Sex, and Lifestyle prominent, unflinching feminist voices of our time. Her writing has broken surface and damaged silences on topics as wide-ranging as miscarriage, motherhood, breasts cancer, princess culture as well as the importance of girls’ sexual pleasure. Her unique mixture of investigative reporting, personal revelation and unpredicted humor has made her books bestselling classics.

In Don’t Call Me Princess, Orenstein’s most resonant and essential essays are for sale to the first time in collected form, up to date with both an original introduction and personal reflections in each piece. Her takes on reproductive justice, the infertility market, tensions between working and stay-at-home moms, red ribbon fear-mongering as well as the complications of girl culture are not simply timeless-they possess, like Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Story, become more urgent in our modern political climate.

Don’t Call Me personally Princess offers an essential evaluation of where we stand today as women-in our work lives, sex lives, as mothers, mainly because partners-illuminating both how far we’ve come and what lengths we still need to go.