Peggy Orenstein, an award-winning writer, author, and speaker concerning issues affecting girls and women, is set to come out with a new book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, this week. As an author with reportedly over 20 years of writing about women's issues, I expected more from the book. Written in a blog-like manner, it tends... Continue Reading →
In Packaging Girlhood, Lamb and Brown mention the concept of mean girls and a movie by the same name. It isn't a new concept. Mean girls have been around for a long time. The word girls can by misleading, because it isn't just girls. Mean girls tend to grow up to be mean women. There... Continue Reading →
Girls and boys, men and women, aren't very different. Looking around at American society, you would never guess that. In their book, Packaging Girlhood, Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown examine the societal aspects which strive to make these gender distinctions and how that affects our daughters. While many would claim genetics and hormonal differences... Continue Reading →
