Cinderella ate my daughter : dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture

Title
: 
Cinderella ate my daughter : dispatches from the front lines of the new girlie-girl culture

Author
: 
Orenstein, Peggy author.

ISBN
: 
9780061711527

Edition
: 
1st ed.

Publication Information
: 
New York : HarperCollins, c2011.

Physical Description
: 
viii, 244 p. ; 24 cm.

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.

Subject Term
: 
Girls -- Psychology.
 
Femininity.
 
Mothers and daughters.

Summary
: 
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.


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)305.23082 ORENonfiction Collection
Wildwood Library (Mahtomedi)305.23082 ORENonfiction Collection