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These days I’m enjoying (and being convicted by) flipping through Peggy Orenstein’s new book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Archive October 14, 2010
The Birth of the Princess-Mania
As a mom of 2 daughters and a youth leader, the title of Peggy Orenstein’s new book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Cinderella Ate My Daughter
A few different folks have sent me this review on Slate of a new book by Peggy Orenstein entitled “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Women and Girls in Family Films
So my mom passed on this Newsweek article to me entitled “The Shame of Family Films”.
Touched Up Images
My husband thought I might be interested in this example of an Ann Taylor model’s picture both before and after it’s been touched-up.
Girls Puberty Age Drops?
As the parent of an 8-year-old girl, this one was unsettling.
Perception is Everything
We’ve long worried about overweight adolescent girls and depression.
The Right Kind of Peer Pressure for Girls
My husband is brilliant. And he reads a lot. He recently sent me this Slate article on peer pressure – the right kind of peer pressure.
Mean Girls?
An op-ed piece in the NY Times last week from sociologist Michael Males has caught some attention and kick-back related to this question: Are teen girls today more or less mean than in the past?
Gaming Violence Linked to Real-Life Agression
The debate has swirled for years about whether more exposure to on-screen violence leads to more real-life violence and aggression.