Deconstructing Dolls
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american girl
american girl doll
anthropology
barbie doll
barbies
beauty
black dolls
bratz dolls
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childrens studies
cultural social
documentary evidence
doll players
doll studies
dolls
emerging scholarship
engaging
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family
gender studies
generational
girlhood studies
growing up
life changes
lifetime
page turner
realistic
retrospective
romance
sites of play
social importance
social meanings
social science
sociology
students and teachers
women and girls
womens issues
young womanhood
young women
Product details
- ISBN 9781800731035
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Mar 2021
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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The age-old trivialization of girls and devaluation of youth cultures has led to a disregard of dolls as legitimate sources of documentary evidence, even among scholars. It was not until the late nineteenth century that changing notions of childhood first gave rise to research on children, and a new appreciation of the social importance of play. Deconstructing Dolls explores the role of dolls in girlhood and young womanhood, seeking to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls particularly as they relate social meanings in the lives of girls.
Miriam Forman-Brunell is a professor of history and Women and Gender Studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
