Fashion Dolls and Feminism

In Fritz Allhoff, Jessica Wolfendale & Jeanette Kennett, Fashion - Philosophy for Everyone: Thinking with Style. Wiley. pp. 151–165 (2011)
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This chapter contains sections titled: What Is Paradigmatic Barbie Doll Play? Barbie's Influence in Cultural Context What Should Feminists Make of Barbie? Reinventing Barbie Play.

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fashion dolls and feminism ‐ and solving a problem like Barbie   Barbie doll, launch in the USA in 1959 ‐ plastic personification, distinctive style of western femininity   Mattel Corporation, marketing variations of it ‐ doll's face, anatomy and accessories, as play prompts   Barbie, forever a thin, blonde teenage fashion model ‐ paradigmatic Barbie play, dressing the doll in newly purchased outfits   talk about paradigmatic play ‐ not meant, to describe how all children play with a particular toy   original tableau, of four Barbies ‐ on a curved staircase, in new outfits   Kant's discussion of deception ‐ any deception, undermining autonomy   fashion, if enslaving, then it may be that ‐ some fashions, being more enslaving than others   projective perception of fashion ‐ hiding extrinsic conditions, constituting it as fashionable   perception of what is in fashion ‐ special “authority of affect”

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