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The acclaimed author of the groundbreaking bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty: the rise of the girlie-girl, she warns, is not that innocent. Pink and pretty or predatory and hardened, sexualized girlhood influences our daughters from infancy onward, telling... read more
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- Daisy: The author's daughter
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- Traci
- Holly
- Tiana
- Martin
- Jamara
- Dora
- Lotte
- Taralyn
- Tallon
- Ava
- Karen
- Sophie
- Shirley Temple
- Mulan
- Ariel
- Decesare
- Bettelheim
- Bella
- Clinton
- Britney
- Andy Mooney
- Mama
- Abby
- Eliot
- Eden
- Dana
- Steven
- Rapunzel
- Tammi
- Edward
- Kaya
- Mickie
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First Sentence edit
Here is my dirty little secret: as a journalist, I have spent nearly two decades writing about girls, thinking about girls, talking about how girls should be raised.
Table of Contents edit
Chapter 1: Why I Hoped for a Boy
Chapter 2: What's Wrong with Cinderella?
Chapter 3: Pinked!
Chapter 4: What Makes Girls Girls?
Chapter 5: Sparkle, Sweetie!
Chapter 6: Guns and (Briar) Roses
Chapter 7: Wholesome to Whoresome: The Other Disney Princesses
Chapter 8: It's All About the Cape
Chapter 9: Just Between You, Me, and My 622 BFFs
Chapter 10: Girl Power - No, Really
Acknowledgements
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Authors & Contributors edit
- Peggy Orenstein (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Harper
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9780061711527
Page Count: 272
Publisher: Harper
Country: United States
Publication Date: 2011
ISBN: 9780061711527
Page Count: 272
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: HQ777.O74 2011
- Dewey: 305.23082
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