About Peggy Orenstein: Peggy Orenstein is the author of the New York Times best-sellers Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Waiting for Daisy, a memoir.
That said, pointing out inaccurate or unrealistic portrayals of women to younger grade school children-ages five to eight-does seem to be effective, when done judiciously:taking to little girls about body image and dieting, for example, can actually ...
Rather than freedom traditional constraints, then, girls were free "choose" them. Yet, the line between "get to" and "have to" blurs awfully fast.