A01=Emily R. Aguilo-Perez
America
Author_Emily R. Aguilo-Perez
Barbie
Barbie artifacts
Barbie doll
Barbie play
body image
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Category=JBSP
Category=NHTQ
childhood
children
class
colonial history
cultural studies
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eq_history
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eq_isMigrated=2
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eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
feminine identity
femininity
gender
gender studies
girls
identity
imagination
innocence
intergeneration
Latin America
Latina
Mattel
memories of childhood
nationalism
play
politics of Barbie
Puerto Rican girlhood
Puerto Rican girls
race
sexuality
toys
transnational
transnational girlhood
upward mobility
whiteness
womanhood
Product details
- ISBN 9781800733862
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 01 Feb 2022
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this study, author Emily R. Aguilo-Perez focuses on a group of multigenerational Puerto Rican women, exploring how playing with Barbie dolls as children has impacted their adult lives. By documenting the often-complicated relationships women have with Barbie dolls, Aguilo-Perez highlights the ways through which women and girls construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.
Emily R. Aguilo-Perez is an Assistant Professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in publications including The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children's Literature, Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies, and Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. She served as guest editor for a special issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and she is a book reviewer for Latinxs in Kid Lit.
