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Contents
List of illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Interrogating the Meanings of Dolls: New Directions in Doll Studies
Miriam Forman-Brunell
Chapter 1. Dolling Up History: Fictions of Jewish American Girlhood
Lisa Marcus
Chapter 2. “A Story, Exemplified in a Series of Figures”: Paper Doll versus Moral Tale in the Nineteenth Century
Hannah Field
Chapter 3. From American Girls into American Women: A Discussion of American Girl Doll Nostalgia
Molly Brookfield
Chapter 4. Barbie versus Modulor: Ideal Bodies, Buildings, and Typical Users
Frederika Eilers
Chapter 5. Handmade Identities: Girls, Dolls and DIY
April Renée Mandrona
Chapter 6. An Afternoon of Productive Play with Problematic Dolls: The Importance of Foregrounding Children’s Voices in Research
Rebecca C. Hains
Chapter 7. Some Assembly Required: Black Barbie and the Fabrication of Nicki Minaj
Jennifer Dawn Whitney
Chapter 8. Black Girls and Dolls Navigating Race, Class, and Gender in Toronto
Janet Rosemarie Seow
Deconstructing Dolls
Girlhoods and the Meanings of Play
Edited by Miriam Forman-Brunell
160 pages, 20 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-102-8 Hb Published (March 2021)
eISBN 978-1-80073-104-2 eBook