附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-212) and index.
Consuming dolls/consuming fashion : contemplating the doll/fashion interchange -- When Paris was a doll : nineteenth-century French couture dolls -- Pretty, magnificent, wonderful : the French Bébé and female representation -- Decline of the French doll industry and the fate of the fashionable doll during the twentieth century -- In the thrall of the dress : dolls, glamour, and female image in the 1950s -- Not only a pretty face : towards the new millennium with the designer doll.
摘要:Feminists have argued that the Barbie doll perpetuates unrealistic standards of feminine beauty and undermines the credibility of women - that her long, slender plastic limbs and tiny waist fetishize the female body in unnatural ways and that her mature, overtly fashionable image promotes consumerism and superficiality over and above womens liberty and intellect.
