![]() ![]() The main problem, so Orenstein, is the focus on cuteness and looks only. The Disney Princesses are a marketing strategy that exploited little girls’ wish to look and dress up like a princess. ![]() I have seen items of the Disney Princesses’ brand but never to the extent she describes. How much can you allow, how well can you shield her from the influences around her and what if you succeed and she will forever be a boyish girl, the odd one out?Ī lot of what Peggy Orenstein describes is certainly very American. It is at the same time a cultural exploration as a reflection on how to bring up a daughter. In Cinderella Ate my Daughter she explores the world of toys, kid’s beauty pageants, the color pink, superhero figures, fairy tales, the internet and so on and so forth. ![]() What happens when a feminist who knows exactly how things should be, gets pregnant and the child is – horror on horror – a girl? This is pretty much how Peggy Orenstein opens her entertaining, thought-provoking and occasionally quite shocking account about what she sub-titles “Dispatches from the front-lines of the new girlie-girl culture”. An intelligent, candid, and often personal work, Cinderella Ate My Daughter offers an important exploration of the burgeoning girlie-girl culture and what it could mean for our daughters’ identities and their futures. ![]()
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