An American icon in Puerto Rico: Barbie, girlhood, and colonialism at play

Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this study, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez focuses on a group of multigenerational Puerto Rican women and girls, exploring how playing with Barbie dolls as children has impacted their lives. By document...

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Main Author: Aguiló-Pérez, Emily R. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York ; Oxford Berghahn 2022
Series:Transnational girlhoods volume 4
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Online Access:Volltext
Summary:Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this study, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez focuses on a group of multigenerational Puerto Rican women and girls, exploring how playing with Barbie dolls as children has impacted their lives. By documenting the often-complicated relationships girls have with Barbie dolls, Aguiló-Pérez highlights the ways through which women and girls construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play
Item Description:Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022)
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 181 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:9781800733879
DOI:10.1515/9781800733879

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