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- English
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A THOROUGHLY GROWN-UP LOOK AT A TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSE OF OUTSTANDING PROPORTIONS To some she's a collectible, to others she's trash. In The Barbie Chronicles, twenty-three writers join together to scrutinize Barbie's forty years of hateful, lovely disastrous, glorious influence on us all. No other tiny shoulders have ever, had to carry the weight of such affection and derision and no other book has ever paid this notorious little place of plastic her due. Whether you adore her or abhor her, The Barbie Chronicles will have you looking at her in ways you never imagined.
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INDEX
Note: Page numbers followed by n indicate material in numbered endnotes.
Addams Family Values (movie), 25
African and African American dolls, 125, 127–42
Christie, 82, 94, 122, 134
Colored Francie, 134, 136
in Dolls of the World International Collection, 82, 127, 128–29, 138, 221–22n1, 224n12
Julia, 83–84, 122
Flip Wilson, 34–35, 36
Akbar, Na’im, 222–23n3
Allan, 14, 112
American Association of University Women, 27
ancillary characters: as accessories to Barbie, 82–85, 93, 112, 122
ethnically oriented, 82, 83–84, 127–42, 223n9
family members of Barbie, 66–67, 84, 93, 94, 96, 98–101, 103, 122, 220n18
lists of, 14, 122
Shani line, 129–42, 223n9; see also Ken; names of specific dolls
Angie, 122
anorexia nervosa. see eating disorders
Aries, Philippe, 22–23
Art, Design and Barbie (show), 17
Asha, 132, 133, 224n10
Asian dolls, 128
“baby boom” generation, 22–23
Baby Brother Tenderlove, 26–27
Barbie: accessories, see Barbie accessories
agelessness of, 89, 98–100, 196
anatomical proportions, 20, 21, 24, 41–42, 68–69, 73, 75–79, 81, 83–88, 106, 112, 113, 117–19, 137–40, 186–87, 194–96, 203
ancillary characters, lists of, 14, 122. see also names of specific dolls;
artistic images and, 25–26, 37, 76–77, 85–88
baby doll/woman doll split and, 29, 45, 175, 177–81
Barbie Exposure Gauge, 29
body project and, 91–99, 104–7, 147–48
breasts...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- Who’s That Girl?
- Golden Oldie
- Dangerous Curves
- Happy Birthday to You!
- Postmodern Muse
- Our Daughters, Their Barbies
- Notes and References
- Contributors
- Index