Nonfiction
I have written about everything from Mattel’s line of Monster High dolls to Cinderella and systemic change, exploitation in academe, and what “older motherhood” really means. Most recently, I wrote about how Disney films speak to parents, and interviewed the founder of Girls Who Code about her Marshall Plan for Moms.
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Recent Work
Business Insider
LA Times
Op Ed: Let 2020 be the year we do away with glossy perfection on our holiday cards
Los Angeles Review
Remembering Eavan Boland: “I Was a Voice”
Sociological Images
The Case of the Cursing Princess
Controversy Re: TIME’s “Are You Mom Enough” Cover
Framing Breastfeeding: Grumet Graces Another Cover
Salon
Kveller
The ‘Only Jew at the Dinner Table’ Feeling
It’s My Kid’s First Day of School, and I’ll Cry If I Want To
Ms. Magazine
Amazon’s Cinderella and Systemic Change: No More Patriarchy Means a Happy Ending For All
Film Critic Carina Chocano Takes On “The Princess Problem” in Book “You Play the Girl”
Mattel’s New “Monster High” Dolls Play On Old-School Stereotypes
Rescuing Your Daughter From the Princess
Momtroversy: How Feminist is Attachment Parenting?
Lessons Learned from the Breastfeeding Prof
SheWrites
Five Questions for … Cinderella Ate My Daughter Author Peggy Orenstein