All over the world, girls often go through a "princess phase", made up with anything pink and pretty. When it happened to Peggy Orenstein's daughter, the writer decided to examine the phenomenon. She found that the “girlie-girl” culture was less innocent than it might seem, and can have negative consequences for girls' psychological, social and physical development. From a very young age, girls learn to define themselves from the outside in, and a lot of researches suggest that our culture’s emphasis on physical beauty is the root of problems such as negative body image, depression, eating disorders and high-risk sexual behavior. I strongly agree with the Peggy Orenstein’s article.
Smiley says, “Both of them learned how to put makeup before kindergarten” (376). Smiley’s daughters learned to apply makeup; however the writer did not know who taught them, until she blamed to Barbie as the influence of their girls. Smiley realized that her daughters were trying new things, such as applying makeup. She did not argue with her girls; instead she let her girls to experiment with makeup or perhaps other things as they grow up. Next, Jane Smiley says that girls start to discover and develop their femininity while playing with Barbie dolls.
Non-fiction essay on how the book Cinderella Ate My Daughter responds to societal issues. The new generation has been taken over by the poor representation of women and girls in the media, from television screens to magazines; women are portrayed as the weak and sensitive gender doing housework chores such as cooking or laundry. The topic of societal issues occurs in the book Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein. In the book, Cinderella Ate My Daughter, by Peggy Orenstein, the author responds to societal issues like eating disorders and Disney’s impact on girls with research from psychological associations and real-life situations. Peggy says that the girlie girl culture we are living in is increasing issues like eating disorders, body weight issues and unsafe sexual behaviour.
‘How does Hosseini present parent/child relationships in chapters 1-8?’ Hosseini’s continuous theme of parent/child relationships is carried quite prominently throughout the novel. In the first chapter we get an insight into the mother/ daughter relationship between Mariam and Nana, this is highlighted as the main focus. We see that Mariam is verbally scolded by Nana when she accidently breaks Nana’s tea set. Nana calls Mariam a ‘harami’ and we see that although Mariam did not know the meaning of the word at the time, as she was only five years old she knew it was an ‘ugly, loathsome thing’. This presents the notion of Nana’s objective resentment towards Mariam and makes the audience aware of the uneasy relationship between the two.
‘In The Bloody Chamber, childhood fairytales become the stuff of adult nightmares.’ With close reference to at least two stories from the collection, say how far you agree with this comment. Angela Carter’s decision to subvert the classic fairytale genre with twisted parodies of the original was shocking to readers at the time, and her stories certainly reveal more sinister and perverse depths of these fairytales – depths which the original authors surely did not intend on existing with their target audience of children in mind. Fairy tales are typically very non- realistic with phrases such as ‘Once upon a time’ - immediately implying a fantasy era and setting, being their famous opening lines. As with fairytales, nightmares are of course always fiction. They can be seen to be the predictor of future events and to say something about your life.
One statistic that stuck out was that one-quarter of 14 to 17 year olds of both sexes received or sent naked pictures of themselves or someone else. Another stated that half of 3 to 6 year old girls are afraid that they are fat. Girls these ages should not be doing or worry about things like that. Hane’s also point out many other studies, examples of people’s personal experiences, and different professors. She also broke up the subjects she wanted to talk about and used subtitles to let us know what the reading would say next.
Jennifer Hoyt ENGLISH 100 7 November 2011 Thin Models Warping Girls’ Body Image “Do Thin Models Warp Girls’ Body Image” came from USA Today. It was written on September 25, 2006 by Nanci Hellmich, a reporter for USA Today for thirty years. She focuses on nutrition, diet, and fitness. The article highlights that models advertise an unhealthy weight among young females. The article states that over the years, models become thinner and thinner which sends out a message to healthy young females that they think they need to look just like them and be at an unhealthy skinny like them too.
21 Aug. 2006. 2 June 2009 This source discusses the anger of beauty pageants. Beauty pageants promote the sexualization of young girls and provide to those involved in pedophilia. Parents are the ones who are at fault for exposing and subjecting their daughters to the sexual use of beauty pageantry. I’m going to use this info to prove that Beauty pageants aren’t just for fun and games, that there child could be in danger .
Contrary to that, there are also multiple similarities between their societal behaviors involving mental illnesses and ours. In Jane Eyre, there can be many arguments made on characters that can be considered ‘mentally incompetent’ or ‘insane’. One example would be Aunt Reed, who found it impossible to care for Jane as her own child simply because she did not like the child’s mother. Today, Aunt Reed would be designated as having Avoidant Attachment Disorder. This mental illness would be diagnosed based upon her hostility, her criticism, her self-important image and her lack of empathy towards Jane.
In the article Gals and Dolls: The Moral Value of “Bad Toys” the author, Marni Jackson, uses several examples to show how overbearing parenting can be destructive to a child later on in life. The first piece of evidence she uses is from psychoanalyst Alice Miller. Who writes that any “system of moral values imposed on children is damaging” and uses the example that many of the world’s most notorious criminals grew up in a rigid and strict household. Jackson is careful to point out that Miller is not suggesting absent parenting, but instead fair treatment, that will help a child develop a stronger sense of justice than they would have with “moral correction”. Jackson than uses the example of children’s toys, and how simple parental awareness