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A review by tophat8855
Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein
3.0
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 looking for a different book. Fast, easy to read. I did find that at times the author was too casual in writing mannerisms. I don't know if I'd say flippant, but there were multiple times when I was, "Is that really the best way to reference mental illness/stereotypes/etc?"
Content-wise: Nothing surprising or really different from Packaging Girlhood. However if you haven't read PG, it's a good first introduction to the topic, though and has more recent references to pop culture than Packaging Girlhood, which was published in 2006. It even quotes PG. But now I can say I've read it and mark it off my list. Done.
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 looking for a different book. Fast, easy to read. I did find that at times the author was too casual in writing mannerisms. I don't know if I'd say flippant, but there were multiple times when I was, "Is that really the best way to reference mental illness/stereotypes/etc?"
Content-wise: Nothing surprising or really different from Packaging Girlhood. However if you haven't read PG, it's a good first introduction to the topic, though and has more recent references to pop culture than Packaging Girlhood, which was published in 2006. It even quotes PG. But now I can say I've read it and mark it off my list. Done.