Cinderella ate my daughter
Subtitle: dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture
By: Peggy Orenstein
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780061711527
Subjects: Mothers and daughters; Femininity; Girls; Psychology
Description: The author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement and concludes that parents who think through their values early on and set reasonable limits, encourage dialogue and skepticism, and are canny about the consumer culture can combat the 24/7 "media machine" aimed at girls and hold off the focus on beauty, materialism, and the color pink somewhat.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-230) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why I hoped for a boy; title: What's wrong with Cinderella?; title: Pinked!; title: What makes girls girls?; title: Sparkle, sweetie!; title: Guns and (briar) roses; title: Wholesome to whoresome: the other Disney princesses; title: It's all about the cape; title: Just between you, me, and my 622 BFFs; title: Girl power-no, really.