Bookshop Santa Cruz: Peggy Orenstein, BOYS & SEX
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Tuesday, Jan 28, 2020 7 PM
Location
Bookshop Santa Cruz
1520 Pacific Ave
Details
Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome back the legendary Peggy Orenstein for a reading and signing of Boys & Sex. Orenstein’s groundbreaking work, Girls & Sex launched conversations about young women's right to pleasure and agency in sexual encounters. It also had an unexpected effect on its author: Orenstein realized that talking about girls is only half the conversation. Boys are subject to the same cultural forces as girls--steeped in the same distorted media images and binary stereotypes of female sexiness and toxic masculinity--which equally affect how they navigate sexual and emotional relationships. In Boys & Sex, Peggy Orenstein dives back into the lives of young people to once again give voice to the unspoken, revealing how young men understand and negotiate the new rules of physical and emotional intimacy.
Peggy Orenstein is the New York Times bestselling author of Cinderella Ate My Daughter, Waiting for Daisy, Flux, and Schoolgirls. A contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine, she has been published in USA Today, Parenting, Salon, the New Yorker, and other publications, and has contributed commentary to NPR's All Things Considered. She lives in Northern California with her husband and daughter.
