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Barbie Culture
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Barbie Culture

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Format Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10 0761958886
ISBN-13 9780761958888
Publisher SAGE Publications Inc
Imprint SAGE Publications Inc
Country of Manufacture GB
Country of Publication GB
Publication Date Dec 22nd, 1998
Print length 192 Pages
Weight 254 grams
Dimensions 21.70 x 13.90 x 1.20 cms
Ksh 11,900.00
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This book uses one of the most popular accessories of girlhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning.
This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning.

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, standardized and oozing fake sincerity.


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