Barbie's Queer Accessories
By:Erica Rand
Published on 1995 by Duke University Press
She's skinny, white, and blond. She's Barbie—an icon of femininity to generations of American girls. She's also multiethnic and straight—or so says Mattel, Barbie's manufacturer. But, as Barbie's Queer Accessories demonstrates, many girls do things with Barbie never seen in any commercial. Erica Rand looks at the corporate marketing strategies used to create Barbie's versatile (She's a rapper! She's an astronaut! She's a bride!) but nonetheless premolded and still predominantly white image. Rand weighs the values Mattel seeks to embody in Barbie—evident, for example, in her improbably thin waist and her heterosexual partner—against the naked, dyked out, transgendered, and trashed versions favored by many juvenile owners and adult collectors of the doll. Rand begins by focusing on the production and marketing of Barbie, starting in 1959, including Mattel's numerous tie-ins and spin-offs. These variations, which include the much-promoted multiethnic Barbies and the controversial Earring Magic Ken, helped make the doll one of the most profitable toys on the market. In lively chapters based on extensive interviews, the author discusses adult testimony from both Barbie |survivors| and enthusiasts and explores how memories of the doll fit into women's lives. Finally, Rand looks at cultural reappropriations of Barbie by artists, collectors, and especially lesbians and gay men, and considers resistance to Barbie as a form of social and political activism. Illustrated with photographs of various interpretations and alterations of Barbie, this book encompasses both Barbie glorification and abjection as it testifies to the irrefutably compelling qualities of this bestselling toy. Anyone who has played with Barbie—or, more importantly, thought or worried about playing with Barbie—will find this book fascinating.
This Book was ranked at 18 by Google Books for keyword ev 1 2 box barbie.
Book ID of Barbie's Queer Accessories's Books is wyeeHB4F6ksC, Book which was written byErica Randhave ETAG "MV74S+RNFJo"
Book which was published by Duke University Press since 1995 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780822316206 and ISBN 10 Code is 082231620X
Reading Mode in Text Status is true and Reading Mode in Image Status is false
Book which have "213 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategoryPsychology
This Book was rated by 2 Raters and have average rate at "2.0"
This eBook Maturity (Adult Book) status is MATURE
Book was written in en
eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true
Book Preview
Tidak ada komentar:
Posting Komentar