Forever Barbie : the unauthorized biography of a real doll / M.G. Lord

By: Lord, M. GMaterial type: TextTextDescription: vii, 325 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmISBN: 9780802776945; 0802776949Subject(s): Barbie dolls -- History | Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th centuryDDC classification: 688.7221 LOC classification: NK4894.3.B37 | L67 2004Online resources: Contributor biographical information | Publisher description
Contents:
Who is Barbie, anyway? -- A toy is born -- Sex and the single doll -- The white goddess -- The book of Ruth -- Some like it Barbie -- Paper doll -- Barbie like me -- My fair Barbie -- Guys and dolls -- Our Barbies, our selves -- The woman who would be Barbie -- Barbie out of control -- Slaves of Barbie -- Barbie faces the future
Summary: Since Barbie's introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what -- for better or worse -- was expected of them. In telling Barbie's fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world
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Martha's Vineyard High School Library
921/BAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 39844400066003

Originally published: New York : Morrow and Co, c1994

Includes bibliographical references (pages [315]-[318]) and index

Who is Barbie, anyway? -- A toy is born -- Sex and the single doll -- The white goddess -- The book of Ruth -- Some like it Barbie -- Paper doll -- Barbie like me -- My fair Barbie -- Guys and dolls -- Our Barbies, our selves -- The woman who would be Barbie -- Barbie out of control -- Slaves of Barbie -- Barbie faces the future

Since Barbie's introduction in 1959, her impact on baby boomers has been revolutionary. Far from being a toy designed by men to enslave women, she was a toy invented by women to teach women what -- for better or worse -- was expected of them. In telling Barbie's fascinating story, cultural critic and investigative journalist M. G. Lord, herself a first-generation Barbie owner, has written a provocative, zany, occasionally shocking book that will change how you look at the doll and the world

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