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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