Cinderella ate my daughter

Much of what Orenstein says has been said before, but only in an aridly scholarly manner. She makes the discussion accessible and riveting by locating it in actual cultural experiences and symbols. Her book is critical but not hopeless. As she puts it, “The path to womanhood is strewn with enchantment, but it is also rife with thickets and thorns and a Big Bad Culture that threatens to consume them even as they consume it. 

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