Barbie Doll as an Aspiration of the Fifties Housewife? Mothers and Daughters in the Shaping of Female Identity

Bachelor Thesis from the year 2005 in the subject Gender Studies, grade: A, The University of Chicago, language: English, abstract: Was Barbie, as feminists said, poisonous for young girls' self-image, did she represent the fact that a woman had choices as Handler remarked, or was she - as conservatives insisted - simply good childhood fun? Barbie may not have prompted a national crisis in female ...