{"product_id":"barbie-culture-mary-f-rogers-9780761958888","title":"Barbie Culture","description":"This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. \u003cp\u003eSome 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mary F. Rogers\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0761958886\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780761958888\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sage Publications Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/02\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.56lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.62w x 0.46d\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mary F. Rogers","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44311039443199,"sku":"9780761958888","price":87.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_546761c3-df36-4bb4-bb54-f78233a60cab.jpg?v=1695720761","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/barbie-culture-mary-f-rogers-9780761958888","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}