Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

by Peggy Orenstein

Book Overview

Peggy Orenstein, acclaimed author of the groundbreaking New York Times bestsellers Girls & Sex and Schoolgirls, offers a radical, timely wake-up call for parents, revealing the dark side of a pretty and pink culture confronting girls at every turn as they grow into adults.

Sweet and sassy or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling them that how a girl looks matters more...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0061711535
• ISBN13: 9780061711534
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Cinderella ate my daughter

Orenstein presented many interesting ideas I haven't considered. Her arguments seem to come down too two issues: 1). Parents are trying to find a role model for their young daughters, ie Disney Princess, Mylie Cyrus, or Britney Speers for examples. The parents later discover these heroes only "love" their daughters as long as they remain a source of income. These heros later transform themselves from the role models that the parent had hoped for into young vixens when they have become to old to be the young princess. 2). That marketing, by Disney, Brats, etc has create an appeal by spending money to fulfill, or a short term basis, the girl's innate fears and needs. Renee Descartes said "I think therefore I am", yet marketing has reframed this statement to "i consume, therefore I am'. We are now consumers, not people.