Playing with America's Doll

A Cultural Analysis of the American Girl Collection

Emilie Zaslow (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2019 | 2017 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-93655-7 (ISBN)

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This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American. Emilie Zaslow begins by tracing the development of American Girl and situates the company’s growth and popularity in a social history of girl power media culture. She then weaves analyses of the collection’s narrative and material representations with qualitative research on mothers and girls. Examining the dolls with both a critical eye and a fan’s curiosity, Zaslow raises questions about the values espoused by this iconic American brand.

Emilie Zaslow is Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Pace University, New York City, USA. She is the author of Feminism, Inc.: Coming of Age in Girl Power Media Culture (2009).

1. Introduction: Unpacking America’s Dolls.- 2. Branding American Girl: The Making of Cultural Icons.- 3. Situating American Girl: Books and Dolls as Tools of Socialization in a Changing Culture.- 4. “Baby Doll, You Made the World a Little Bit Better by Speaking Out for What You Believe In": Narratives of Femininity and Political Action in the American Girl Collection.- 5. From “This Where Freedom Supposed to Be At” to “She Knew She Would Never Stop Speaking Out for What Was Right": Racial Logic and African American Identity in American Girl.- 6. “This is my home": Representing Race, Ethnicity, and the American Experience in American Girl.- 7. Conclusion: Constructing America’s Girlhood.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.07.2019
Zusatzinfo	8 Illustrations, color; XI, 204 p. 8 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie
Schlagworte	American Girl dolls • Barbie • Consumerism • dolls • Feminism • feminist theory • gender conditioning • gendered toys • gender norms • gender roles • Gender Studies • Mattel • popular culture • women's studies
ISBN-10	1-349-93655-3 / 1349936553
ISBN-13	978-1-349-93655-7 / 9781349936557
Zustand	Neuware