“My father was always obsessed with the image of the perfect woman, and then he married one whose name happened to be Barbie. The choice of the name for the Barbie doll was my father ...

Starring Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling, the movie sets out to explore what happens when plastic children’s doll and ... Peace with Women's Bodies (An Activist's Guide), ” Barbie would be ...

Female dolls have historically featured slender ... According to the Harmony study, 53% of Gen Z women think Barbie represents the ideal body type. “The path [Barbie] is on is definitely making ...

Barbie is honoring women in music with two new dolls representing two important roles: musical artist and tour manager. The doll brand teamed up with Grammy award-winning singer Alicia Keys ...

her story is intrinsically linked to the doll she fought tooth and nail to bring to life. As Gerber concluded in Barbie and Ruth: "Ruth personified her own ideal for Barbie, a woman who defied ...

After noting a lack of women doctors during a hospital ... that young girls described smaller "ideal bodies" after playing with "ultra-thin" dolls like Barbie versus more realistic dolls.

Baby dolls might have trained girls as mothers, but before Barbie ... college women celebrated casual sex as empowering but were deeply insecure about “genital self-image.” The ideal?

“This provoked the question that if Barbie is the ideal and the norm ... Davis realized that a lot of Black women, like her aunt, collected Black dolls throughout their lives.

Small Barbara would have loved to play with a fully fledged plastic adult woman doll ... elements.” Barbie, with her small scale and her many tiny accessories, is an ideal object for a child ...

Barbie has been the platonic ideal of what a young woman could and should be. “Every little girl needed a doll through which to project herself into her dream of her future,” Ruth Handler ...