Friends of the Lafayette Library & Learning Center, the Lafayette School District Parent Education Committee & Lamorinda Moms present Peggy Orenstein, author of the bestselling Cinderella Ate My Daughter and Schoolgirls.
The author of the bestseller Schoolgirls reveals the dark side of pink and pretty in Cinderella Ate My Daughter, a wake-up call to parents: the rise of the girlie girl is not that innocent.
As a new mother, Peggy Orenstein was blindsided by the persistent ultra-feminine messages being sent to a new generation of little girls, from "princess-mania" to endless permutations of pink. How many times can you say no when your daughter begs for a pint-sized wedding gown, she wondered. How dangerous is pink and pretty anyway? Being a princess is just make-believe, isn't it? Does playing Cinderella shield little girls from early sexualization or prime them for it?
"Orenstein has done parents the great favor of having this important debate with herself on paper and in public; she has fashioned an argument with its seams showing and its pockets turned inside out, and this makes her book far more interesting, and more useful." Annie Paul, The New York Times Book Review
Buy your books in advance at The Storyteller Bookstore in Lafayette. 20% of the proceeds will go to the Friends of Lafayette Library and Learning Center.
Refreshments provided by Lamorinda Moms.
Visit www.peggyorenstein.com to learn more.
Free. No reservations necessary.
