Author of "Where Has My Little Girl Gone?"

Author of "Our Fathers, Ourselves"

Author of "Cinderella Ate My Daughter" and "School Girls"

Author of "Odd Girl Out," educator, and coach

American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Facts for Families: Bullying (Oct. 2006. updated 2008)

Brown, Lyn Mikel and Sharon Lamb. Packaging Girlhood: Rescuing Our Daughters from Marketers’ Schemes. St. Martin’s Press: NY, 2006.

Brumberg, Joan Jacobs, The Body Project. Random House: NY, 2010

Damour, Lisa, “Teaching Girls to Tinker.” Education Week (Nov. 9, 2009: online

DeMott, Rick, “The Powerpuff Girls’ Phenomenal Merchandising Mantra.” Animation World, Issue 5.7 (October 2000).

Douglas, Susan J., Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media. Three Rivers Press: NY, 1994.

Kelley, Tina, “When the Cool Get Hazed.” New York Times, Sept. 16, 2009

Orenstein, Peggy. “Wonder Girl: Does your daughter need a superhero?” New York Times Magazine, August 2, 2009.

“What’s Wrong with Cinderella?” New York Times Magazine, Dec. 24, 2006.

Munsch, Robert. The Paper Bag Princess. Annick Press: Canada, 1980.

Sadker, Myra Pollack and Sadker, David Miller. Failing at Fairness: How America’s schools cheat girls. C. Scribner’s Sons; Maxwell Macmillan International, New York: 1994.

White, Shelley. "Is it Possible to Avoid the Princess Phase?" Parent Dish, Feb. 19, 2010