![]() Orenstein has lived and worked around the world and particularly in Haiti, where she traveled as a folklore student and journalist in the 1990s, during a time of political upheaval. Newsweek called it "revelatory," the Wall Street Journal called it "beguiling," Naomi Wolf called it “laid back, readable brilliance," and Harvard University Dean Maria Tatar, an authority on fairy tales, wrote: "Trained as a folklorist, Orenstein also has a writer's gift for making her account sparkle with dazzling insights." ![]() It has been translated into multiple languages and featured in national newspapers and magazines, on network television and NPR. Her first book, Little Red Riding Hood Uncloaked: Sex, Morality & the Evolution of a Fairy Tale, follows a fairy tale through time, from the werewolf trials of old Europe to the movies of modern Hollywood, to trace our changing ideas about women, sexuality and morality. She has lectured at Harvard, Penn, and Columbia universities, and appeared on ABC TV World News, Good Morning America, MSNBC, CNN and NPR All Things Considered. ![]() Her opinion pieces have run on the Knight-Ridder newswire and appear in anthologies. ![]() CATHERINE ORENSTEIN has written on culture, mythology, and power for The New York Times (where she is an occasional contributor to the op-ed page), The Washington Post, The San Francisco Examiner Sunday Magazine, and Ms. ![]()
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