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Erica Rand Barbie's Queer Accessories (Paperback) Series Q
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Book Title
- Barbie's Queer Accessories
- Publication Name
- Barbie's Queer Accessories
- Title
- Barbie's Queer Accessories
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- ISBN-10
- 082231620X
- EAN
- 9780822316206
- ISBN
- 9780822316206
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Genre
- Antiques & Collectibles, Psychology, Social Science
- Topic
- Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Lgbt Studies / General, Popular Culture, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Dolls, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies
- Release Date
- 20/04/1995
- Release Year
- 1995
- Language
- English
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- US
- Item Weight
- 13.5 Oz
- Series
- Series Q
- Item Length
- 9.8in
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Item Height
- 0.6in
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Duke University Press
ISBN-10
082231620x
ISBN-13
9780822316206
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23038448754
Product Key Features
Book Title
Barbie's Queer Accessories
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Human Sexuality (See Also Social Science / Human Sexuality), Lgbt Studies / General, Popular Culture, Lgbt Studies / Gay Studies, Dolls, Lgbt Studies / Lesbian Studies
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Antiques & Collectibles, Psychology, Social Science
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.8in
Item Height
0.6in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
13.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Hq23.R36 1995
Reviews
"Over the course of the 1980s, Barbie has become an artist's model, a collector's 'fetish,' and, as Erica Rand shows us, an object of collective and personal memory. Barbie's Queer Accessories will help to open up important issues about queer readings in relationship to one of the most feminine coded objects of contemporary culture."-Lynn Spigel, author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America, "Over the course of the 1980s, Barbie has become an artist's model, a collector's 'fetish,' and, as Erica Rand shows us, an object of collective and personal memory. Barbie's Queer Accessories will help to open up important issues about queer readings in relationship to one of the most feminine coded objects of contemporary culture."--Lynn Spigel, author of Make Room for TV: Television and the Family Ideal in Postwar America
Copyright Date
1995
Lccn
94-038509
Dewey Decimal
306.76
Series
Series Q Ser.
Illustrated
Yes
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