Parenting Series: Resolving the Princess Problem
Category
Webinars
Admission
- $20.00
Description
Thursday, April 9, 2015 – 2:00pm - 3:00pm EST
Resolving the Princess Problem:
Raising Empowered, Media Literate Girls with Pop Culture Coaching
Dr. Rebecca Hains
Princess culture is full of unhealthy beauty ideals and stereotypes about gender and race that our children are not equipped to handle. What's a concerned parent to do? Rebecca Hains reveals how parents can act as their daughters' pop culture coaches, raising them to see the media's harmful messages from a critical perspective--taking power away from the media and empowering our children, instead. Participants will learn the four steps of pop culture coaching and how to apply these steps to toys, movies, and television shows, and more, with special attention to the princess culture that dominates many young girls' lives.
Dr. Rebecca Hains is a nationally recognized children’s media culture expert. She is a professor of advertising and media studies at Salem State University in Salem, Mass., where she is affiliated with the Center for Childhood and Youth Studies. Her research focuses on girls and media. The author of The Princess Problem: Guiding Our Girls Through the Princess-Obsessed Years and Growing Up With Girl Power: Girlhood On Screen and in Everyday Life, Dr. Hains has spoken about her work at more than 30 national and international conferences and is available as a speaker for special events.
Dr. Hains serves on the advisory board of Media Literacy Now, an organization working to integrate media literacy into the K-12 curriculum. She has appeared in media including NPR, The Meredith Vieira Show, FOX News, The Boston Globe, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, National Journal, The Harvard Political Review, andThe Huffington Post, which have featured her expert perspective on media culture, as well as her work advocating for better media for girls and women. She blogs at rebeccahains.com/blog and contributes to the Christian Science Monitor's Modern Parenthood page.
Dr. Hains serves on the advisory board of Media Literacy Now, an organization working to integrate media literacy into the K-12 curriculum. She has appeared in media including NPR, The Meredith Vieira Show, FOX News, The Boston Globe, Cosmopolitan Magazine, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, National Journal, The Harvard Political Review, andThe Huffington Post, which have featured her expert perspective on media culture, as well as her work advocating for better media for girls and women. She blogs at rebeccahains.com/blog and contributes to the Christian Science Monitor's Modern Parenthood page.