Cinderella ate my Daughter : : Dispatches From the Frontlines of the new Girlie-Girl Culture

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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.
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.

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How Pink Came to Cover the Toy Aisles submitted by sdunav on August 13, 2011, 9:45am This is a good but not great book, combining journalism with personal memoir (Orenstein has a young daughter who went through the "princess phase"). Its greatest strengths are in the chapters that examine niche marketing in the US - Disney princesses, American Girls, Barbie, Bratz, and the proliferation of pink stuff of all kinds in the last decade.

There's also a bit on little girl beauty pageants, tween idols (Hilary Duff, Hanna Montana, Britney Spears, Selena Gomez, but nothing on iCarly? We know Oreinstein is very familiar with Nick Jr. from the rest of this chapter!), the internet and social networking, and weight and body image. It's a good survey of some of the issues important to girls today, and Orenstein isn't overly pedantic - but it all seems a bit scattershot and it ends rather abruptly

Relevant for all parents submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on July 8, 2014, 8:33am This book asked and raised more questions for me than it answered, but in raising kids, I think that's really par for the course. It addressed girl-culture issues from preschool through middle school most thoroughly, and gave me some heads-up for issues coming down the pike. Relevant for all parents (since "defining" girlhood automatically defines some things about boyhood), but especially for moms of girls age 2-14.

Cinderella ate my daughter submitted by crp on August 5, 2019, 11:58pm Title says it all. Worth reading.

s submitted by Kenes on July 12, 2020, 9:40am cultural issues