Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture in fMh

May 24, 2013 Shauni rated it really liked it

This book was much less over-the-top radical than I was expecting it to be based on my first impression from the cover. Peggy Orenstein draws heavily from her experiences with her own daughter, as well as other anecdotal experiences and a bit of scientific research, to offer practical parenting advice to those of us raising girls.

My favorite quote:

"It would be disingenuous to claim that Disney Princess diapers or Ty Girlz or Hannah Montana or Twilight or the latest Shakira video or a Facebook ac ...more

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Feb 23, 2012 Heather rated it liked it

Everyone's talking about it + I'm joining the Berkeley ward RS book group for this next month. I wonder how it compares to Packaging Girlhood.

Moving this to "to read" because I didn't get a chance to finish it and I had visiting teaching group the night of the book group, so I missed it. I don't expect it to be much different than Packaging Girlhood, except to have more updated references to TV shows/movies/pop stars.

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Finally read it because it was on the shelf at the library when I was lo ...more

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Dec 31, 2012 Sara B. rated it liked it

Shelves: non-fiction

I liked the premise of the book, but the author seemed to wander and muse too much. I wanted more research, and it felt more like a memoir than social science. She had some good insights about how our culture teaches girls to be desirable, but not neccesarily desire, leading to girls objectifying themselves. I also liked her take on the pageant world, social media and even Twilight, adding depth to these situations, rather than making them black and white. Maybe I would have been more invested i ...more

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Jan 28, 2011 Rachael Lauritzen rated it really liked it

Shelves: parenting

This was a really interesting read. Well-written, it's easy to just keep reading it, and it's not that long. Orenstein basically examines a marketing-intensive culture that with its relatively narrow parameters for girls, effectively limits girls' options in pop culture, to the detriment of their creativity and sense of self. At times it seems like a chicken/egg conundrum--are marketers giving girls what they already want or are girls wanting what is marketers (so appealingly!) are packaging for ...more

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Feb 22, 2011 Mere LeSueur rated it it was amazing

This book approaches the princess culture of preschool girls with openness and honesty. It is an unbiased steady look at the role our gender, and gender roles of our culture, affect development of young girls. It follows the author in her experiences with her own daughter, it examines assumptions, both pro-princess and against princess and it is just a plain good read in my opinion. I will be giving it as a shower gift for any person having a girl from now on.

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Jul 14, 2018 Lisa Butterworth rated it really liked it

Shelves: body

Easy to read and balanced between understanding the patriarchal bargains we all have to make to live in this sexist world, and calling out the crap, and uncovering layers of sexist implications around it all. She doesn't get preachy or uptight or insist we all live in some pure consumer culture free (fantasy) ideal but instead points to practical ways to educate ourselves about the ways in which we are influenced daily by consumer sexism. ...more

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