1st Edition
In a Barbie World Barbie as Narrative, Symbol, and Cipher
Introduction
Anna Gotlib and Claire Elise Katz
Part I: Barbie, History, and Feminisms
1. From Golden Lassos to Dream Houses: Femineering Power in Mid-Century America
J. Lenore Wright
2. Feminism and Consumerism in Sex and the City and Barbie
Nanna Hlín Halldórsdóttir
3. Barbie and the Subversion of White Feminist Fantasy that Wasn’t
Serene Khader
Part II: Barbie and Identities
4. Requiem for the Snowflake Self: Barbie’s Journey from Innocence to Experience
Daniel Conway
5. Are You Really #Kenough? Barbie, Main Character Syndrome, and NPCs
Anna Gotlib
6. Weird Barbie and Me…and You?
Jade Schiff
7. Imagining Masculinity Without Patriarchy: A Critical Analysis of Proposals From the Film Barbie
Amir Jaima
Part III: Barbie as Counternarrative
8. Dismantling Barbieland: Dissonant Perspectives and Challenging Narratives
Sydney Zentell, Sharon Matthews and Claire Elise Katz
9. Could It Be Hope? Exploring, From A Critical Perspective, Barbie's Inescapable Allure
Gabriela Arguedas-Ramírez
10. Invitations to Girls’ Night: Creating Discursive Space for Solidarity in Barbieland and Beyond
Lisa McKeown
11. Barbie Breakups and Feminist Utopias: Consciousness-Raising in Postfeminist Times
Katrín Pálmad. Þorgerðardóttir and Eyja M. Brynjarsdóttir
Part IV: Coda
12. They Tried to Put “Barbie” in the Corner
Susan Bordo
Biography
Anna Gotlib is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York in the United States.
Claire Elise Katz is Professor of Philosophy and Education at Texas A&M University in the United States.
