Barbie culture
Title:
Barbie culture
Author:
Rogers, Mary F. (Mary Frances), 1944-
ISBN:
9780585347844
9781848609051
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Publication Information:
London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 1999.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 171 p.)
Series:
Core cultural icons
Core cultural icons.
Contents:
Emphatic femininity -- (Hetero)sexuality and race in Barbie's world -- Challenged childhood and youthful consumption -- The making of an icon -- Plastic bodies -- Plastic selves -- Appendix: Data for this study.
Abstract:
This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. Some readings would see Barbie as reproducing ethnicity and gender in a particularly coarse and damaging way - a cultural icon of racism and sexism. Rogers develops a broader, more challenging picture. She shows how the cultural meaning of Barbie is more ambiguous than the narrow, appearance-dominated model that is attributed to the doll. For a start, Barbie s sexual identity is not clear-cut. Similarly her class situation is ambiguous. But all interpretations agree tha.
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