Cinderella Ate My Daughter Summary

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Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the new Girly-Girl Culture written by Peggy Orenstein, published by HarperCollins books in 2011 is a book that explores how girls are “struggling to fulfill the new expectations we have for them without letting go of the old ones” (Orenstein). In this book it isn’t just about Disney. It can be broken up in to two parts Disney and not Disney topics. Orenstein also, addresses the culture surrounding our daughters, and she confronts the increasingly urgent sexulization of our young girls. She also talks about how different things are from twenty to one hundred years ago.
Orenstein is a journalist and wrote this book about raising her daughter in a media and self-absorbed culture. She talks about everything from the recently marketed Disney princess culture to other Disney trends for older kids. Examples she mentions would be Disney …show more content…

There should also be a limit that we as parent should set for our daughters. She also pointed out towards the end that she tried so hard to steer her daughter Daisy away from all of it and it didn’t work for her because of all the other influences that are around us; media and peers. She also pointed out that by doing this she had pushed her daughter away from being friends with girls who were in to the Disney princess trend or girly girls.
When it comes to Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches From the Front Lines of the new Girly-Girl Culture this book fits best with the gender subject we have learned in class. When I say it fits best with gender, there are a lot of different aspects with gender. But the ones it fits with are gender socialization, gender roles, and a little with gender inequality. All of these are things I Believe the author is trying to point out in the book. And I believe that when it comes to most of them she gives good

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