Bestselling journalist Orenstein follows up Cinderella Ate My Daughter with a look at what happens when the little princess hits puberty. The result is an eye-opening, sometimes horrifying look at sex for today’s girls and young adults. Through frank interviews, research, and school visits, Orenstein reveals that, on average, young women are engaging in sexual contact earlier than ever, in more varied ways, and reporting more coercion and less satisfaction than their male counterparts. She cuts through many of the prickly topics associated with girls’ sexuality in contemporary culture, including purity debates, hook-up culture, arguments about what girls wear, rape and consent on college campuses, the problem of porn, and what kind of sex education actually works. She looks briefly at gender fluidity and touches on the concerns of LGBTQ young women. Orenstein draws powerful, humane portraits of her interview subjects, self-reliant young women who find themselves trapped by sexist stereotypes about women’s bodies and women’s pleasure. In this smart, earnest, and timely assessment, Orenstein urges frank, open communication among trusted adults and curious teens, declaring it the best way to encourage girls and boys to make safe, healthy decisions that “end in joy and honor rather than regret, guilt, or shame” and achieve “intimate justice.” (Mar.)

In Dreams of Flight, Fran Martin explores how young Chinese women negotiate competing pressures on their identity while studying abroad. On one hand, unmarried middle-class women in the single child generations are encouraged to develop themselves as professional human capital through international education, molding themselves into independent, cosmopolitan, career-oriented individuals. On the other, strong neotraditionalist state, social, and familial pressures of the post-Mao era push them back toward marriage and family by age thirty. Martin examines these women’s motivations for studying in Australia and traces their embodied and emotional experiences of urban life, social media worlds, work in low-skilled and professional jobs, romantic relationships, religion, Chinese patriotism, and changed self-understanding after study abroad. Martin illustrates how emerging forms of gender, class, and mobility fundamentally transform the basis of identity for a whole generation of Chinese women.

本书结合历史文献资料和作者多年来所做的田野调查，对明清以来淮北社会生态变迁的历程及其原因进行了深入探讨。分析了治水、漕运和盐务等政策对淮北的地理、河道、水文、物产、民性及经济结构与社会结构等的塑造乃至扭曲作用。认为淮北地区之所以从唐宋时代的鱼米之乡演变为穷乡瘠壤，主要是封建中央政府以“顾全大局”的名义而有意牺牲这一“局部利益”的结果。

“当我踏进模特经纪公司办公室的那一刻，就走进了一个充满伦理、政治、女性主义的研究困境。”曾在纽约和伦敦做过模特的社会学家阿什利·米尔斯，以内行人的视角展现了模特世界的规则，检视了人们习以为常的“美丽”是如何定义的。书中涉及对男模、女模、经纪人、客户、摄影师、造型师等角色的广泛访谈，展现了魅力产业背后的政治与经济，甚至随意性。在这条深藏不露的文化生产流水线上，好看不是唯一的标准，合适的外形才是时尚的起源，人们接受训练、推销、打造成珍贵的商品。该书对新文化经济中的社会分析，经济社会学中性别与阶层研究带来了新的启发。