Bibliograph

Cinderella ate my daughter, dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture, Peggy Orenstein

Type

Label

Cinderella ate my daughter, dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture, Peggy Orenstein

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-230) and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cinderella ate my daughter

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

702354423

Responsibility statement

Peggy Orenstein

Review

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

Sub title

dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture

Table Of Contents

Why I hoped for a boy -- What's wrong with Cinderella? -- Pinked! -- What makes girls girls? -- Sparkle, sweetie! -- Guns and (briar) roses -- Wholesome to whoresome: the other Disney princesses -- It's all about the cape -- Just between you, me, and my 622 BFFs -- Girl power-no, really

Target audience

adult

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