- Mothers and daughters, Femininity, Girls, Psychology
The author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement and concludes that parents who think through their values early on and set reasonable limits, encourage dialogue and skepticism, and are canny about the consumer culture can combat the 24/7 "media machine" aimed at girls and hold off the focus on beauty, materialism, and the color pink somewhat.
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Spare, contemporary, classical in form and character-led.
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
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- Author
- Peggy Orenstein
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 252
- Publisher
- Harper, HarperCollins, HarperCollins Publishers
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061711534
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