Women’s & gender studies

For this paper please refer to three chapters in “Cinderella Ate my Daughter” By Peggy Orenstein
These are just some points within each chapter, that can be added to and elaborated on.

Why I hoped for a boy (Chapter 1)
• Influence on daughter
o Young girls as well
• Proper role model
• Being ok with your own beauty
o Body image

(connection being a princess to beauty)
What’s Wrong with Cinderella? (Chapter 2)
• Superficial princess
• Writer “allowed” her daughter to get “lost”
• Worried Jewish Mother mentality
o Her attitude towards daughter
• Pressure to be perfect in every aspect
• Some stories are not allowed in the house
o Some costumes are however

What Makes Girls Girls (chapter 4)
• “Gender is a bunch of socially constructed hooey”
• Culture of Girlhood, nature vs nurture
• Concept of labeling
• Baby boys and girls share same interests
• Child development
o Boys and girls need to talk to one another in child development

Disney princess have had a huge impact on the lives of many girls , good/bad influence on children
Added pressure to girls that are growing up in society today
Below are some sources that I found, it would be great if you can use them within the paper, and if not thats fine just please find

others.

Das, Arpita. “The Dildo As A Transformative Political Tool: Feminist And Queer Perspectives.” Sexuality & Culture 18.3 (2014): 688-703.

Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Feb. 2016.

Davis, Amy M. “The ‘Dark Prince’ And Dream Women: Walt Disney And Mid-Twentieth Century American Feminism.” Historical Journal Of Film,

Radio & Television 25.2 (2005): 213-230. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Feb. 2016.

GRAY, JESSICA. “Typewriter Girls In Turn-Of-The-Century Fiction: Feminism, Labor And Modernity.” English Literature In Transition,

1880-1920 58.4 (2015): 456-502. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Feb. 2016.

Hains, Rebecca C. “The Significance Of Chronology In Commodity Feminism: Audience Interpretations Of Girl Power Music.” Popular Music &

Society 37.1 (2014): 33-47. Academic Search Premier. Web. 2 Feb. 2016.
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