Barbie Culture (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780761958888)

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 that, with her enormous range of lifestyle accessories′, Barbie exists to consume. Her body is the perfect metaphor of modern times: plastic, st

Author: Mary F. Rogers
ISBN-10: 0761958886
ISBN-13: 9780761958888
Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
Language: English
Published: 02/02/1999
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.56lbs
Size: 8.56h x 5.62w x 0.46d