Remember the mother who swallowed her vendetta against princess pink and let her daughter be herself? Perhaps you can relate with a little one of your own who is obsessed with the color pink and all things “princess.”
It might just be time to reconsider the color pink suggests Peggy Orenstein in her new book release Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture.
The princess culture and media messages drive little girls to be
ultra-feminine and image conscious at a very young age. Orenstein
believes today’s girls are simply too obsessed with being pretty
princesses and perhaps becoming sexualized too early.In her book, Orenstein sets out to discover the origins and ramifications of this cultural shift.
Throughout the book, Orenstein ventures to the land of Disney and American Girl Place, visits the toy industry’s largest trade show, even braves a Miley Cyrus concert. She talks with historians, marketers, psychologists, neuroscientists, parents, and children themselves. She returns to the original fairy tales, seeks out girls’ virtual presence online, and ponders the meaning of child beauty pageants. In the process, she faces down her own confusion as a mother and woman about issues that rearing a girl raise about her own femininity.
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