Archive for February, 2011
Raising Daughters: Orenstein Wrestles With the New Girlie-Girl Culture
Recently I read Peggy Orenstein’s book Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture. Orenstein’s book wrestles topics like the effects of Disney Princesses on young girls, the color pink, body image, feminism, Barbie, teen idols such as Britney Spears and Miley Cyrus, plastic surgery, Botox, social networking and [...]
Read More..>>Successful School Completion: An Editorial Journey
Early in 2009, I began working on our issue about preventing school dropout. I grew passionate about the topic and even blogged about my experience and perceptions as that issue was published. In a nutshell, when I began reading the research literature, I quickly became dissatisfied with the focus that the term “school dropout” gave [...]
Read More..>>Proud to be a Woman
A few young women I met last year from the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula in East Palo Alto, California, created the music video, “PROUD TO BE A WOMAN” BY PEAPOD AYV ACADEMY from B & G Clubs of the Peninsula on Vimeo. This impressive video incorporates four young women singing about women [...]
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