Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers' Schemes

By Sharon Lamb, Lyn Mikel Brown

Winner of the Books for a greater lifestyles Award

Every mum or dad who cares approximately empowering her daughter may still personal a copy."
- Rachel Simmons, writer of Odd lady Out: The Hidden tradition of Aggression in Girls

"...a must-read for fogeys and lecturers who are looking to steer women clear of advertising schemes that distort lady strength and authority and towards precise self-acceptance and real empowerment."
-- Polly younger Eisendrath, writer of Women and Desire and The Resilient Spirit

The photo of ladies and girlhood that's being packaged and bought in your daughter isn't really beautiful in purple. it really is stereotypical, demeaning, restricting, and alarming. women are besieged by way of photos within the media that inspire accessorizing over teachers; intercourse charm over activities; style over friendship.
Packaging Girlhood exposes those stereotypes and offers you tips on tips to speak together with your daughters approximately those adverse photographs and offers you with instruments and data on the best way to aid your women make extra optimistic choices.

"A journey de strength of good scholarship installed a truly readable context and chockfull of useful feedback for fogeys for change!"
-- William S. Pollack, Ph.D., writer of Real Boys: Rescuing Our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood

"Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown have that infrequent reward of translating state-of-the-art study and research into suggestions and knowledge that each guardian (and each lady) can use in day-by-day life."
-- Joe Kelly, president of Dads and Daughters (DADs)

"With compassion, perception, and humor [Lamb and Brown] get to the bottom of and demystify the messages ladies confront all through their improvement, and so they supply adults invaluable instruments to aid ladies face up to their strong pull."
-- Lynn M. Phillips, Ph.D., division of Communications, collage of Massachusetts, Amherst

"Sharon Lamb and Lyn Mikel Brown's sharp research and patiently pragmatic suggestion is simply what we have to maintain our daughter's quests for fit identities."
-Michael Kimmel, writer Manhood in the United States, Professor, SUNY Stony Brook

Sharon Lamb, author of The mystery Lives of Girls, is professor of Psychology at Saint Michael's collage in Vermont. Her learn on ladies' and youths' improvement is generally pointed out. also, she listens to their struggles and strengths in her inner most practice.

Lyn Mikel Brown, professor of schooling at Colby collage in Maine, is the writer of 3 books on ladies' improvement, together with Meeting on the Crossroads: Women's Psychology and ladies' Development (with Carol Gilligan). She creates courses for ladies at her nonprofit Hardy women fit girls (www.hghw.org).

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Maritza, seventeen, from South Carolina, advised us her mom and dad prohibited “Christina Aguilera simply because they reckon she indicates an excessive amount of of her physique and that she can’t sing. i feel that she will be able to sing, and exhibiting her physique off occasionally indicates self belief. ” Becca’s mom and dad limit Nirvana. “I like Kurt Cobain. My father doesn’t consider his tune, although, specially the track ‘Rape Me. ’ That’s beautiful self-explanatory. My argument is that Kurt Cobain used to be a super guy. regardless of what he thinks, i will be able to hearken to whoever i need to. It’s in contrast to I’m suicidal. ” Chanel’s mom and dad limit 50 Cent “because he's a foul individual, a thug who degrades ladies and has no admire for others. a few of 50’s songs are catchy, or even although i don’t have a true reliable argument, I hearken to his tune! …I like a few, no longer so much, of his lyrics. ” a couple of mom and dad limit Eminem fairly. Kara’s mom and dad say, “He will get in difficulty with the legislations. His language is terrible. i believe he’s a genius and says all of the s*** everybody else is afraid to assert. ” Christine’s mom and dad additionally hate Eminem. “They don’t like rapping within the first position, yet they suspect he makes use of language or talks approximately in his tune issues that will impression young children to do issues that their mom and dad could disapprove of. i feel that it doesn't matter what children take heed to, they’re going to do what they need to it doesn't matter what songs say. ” If we take heed to what those young people are rather announcing, they’re liking what they interpret because the boldness of the artists, no matter if it’s in gown or lyrics, not only the catchiness of the rap or the melody. They pay attention artists asserting “what all people else is afraid to assert. ” additionally they chortle at any concept that they're so simpleminded they're going to exit and imitate what a singer says he does in a music, or behave and get dressed like a pop superstar just because they prefer her song, even if we all know that they do imitate them. Why else might those similar stars have garments strains and signature fragrances? nonetheless, should you take heed to this voice of resistance, they are going to come to worth that a part of themselves. Prohibiting track since you worry the effect demeans your youngster. Believing that your youngster can take a severe stance and supplying her the language and instruments to take action helps that severe stance. we recommend you to motivate every kind of song. figuring out that your youngster likes boldness, element her to the confidence of extra political songs or girl singers who in truth say what it skill to be a lady, a lady in today’s society. for instance, there are protest songs. There are teams and artists from the sixties who sang approximately peace and love as a sort of protest and whose track survives this day. Ani DiFranco, Dar Williams, India. Arie, and feminine artists like them, who've been making a song songs of lady protest for over a decade on matters equivalent to girl-to-girl festival, men rubbing up opposed to a woman in a crowded subway, paying for issues after which thinking about approximately turning a revenue for a few “big man’s business,” and AIDS. Social critic Ani DiFranco, who has a creation corporation, might help your daughter flip her angst into anger with reference to the cultural messages she’s receiving approximately her seems and her habit.

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