Barbie's Queer Accessories - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Barbie's Queer Accessories write by Erica Rand. This book was released on 1995. Barbie's Queer Accessories available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book discusses the history of the Barbie doll and at the cultural reappropriations of Barbie by artists, collectors and especially lesbians and gay men.
Feminist Anthropology
Feminist Anthropology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Feminist Anthropology write by Ellen Lewin. This book was released on 2009-02-09. Feminist Anthropology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Feminist Anthropology surveys the history of feministanthropology and offers students and scholars a fascinatingcollection of both classic and contemporary articles, grouped tohighlight key themes from the past and present. Offers vibrant examples of feminist ethnographic work ratherthan synthetic overviews of the field. Each section is framed by a theoretical and bibliographicessay. Includes a thoughtful introduction to the volume that providescontext and discusses the intellectual “foremothers” ofthe field, including Margaret Mead, Ruth Landes, Phyllis Kaberry,and Zora Neale Hurston.
Barbie Culture
Barbie Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Barbie Culture write by Mary F Rogers. This book was released on 2009-12-04. Barbie Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book uses one of the most popular accessories of childhood, the Barbie doll, to explain key aspects of cultural meaning. Some readings would see Barbie as reproducing ethnicity and gender in a particularly coarse and damaging way - a cultural icon of racism and sexism. Rogers develops a broader, more challenging picture. She shows how the cultural meaning of Barbie is more ambiguous than the narrow, appearance-dominated model that is attributed to the doll. For a start, Barbie′s sexual identity is not clear-cut. Similarly her class situation is ambiguous. But all interpretations agree that, with her enormous range of lifestyle `accessories′, Barbie exists to consume. Her body is the perfect metaphor of modern times: plastic, standardized and oozing fake sincerity.
Africa in the American Imagination
Africa in the American Imagination - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa in the American Imagination write by Carol Magee. This book was released on 2012-04-26. Africa in the American Imagination available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the American world, the presence of African culture is sometimes fully embodied and sometimes leaves only a trace. Africa in the American Imagination: Popular Culture, Racialized Identities, and African Visual Culture explores this presence, examining Mattel's world of Barbie, the 1996 Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, and Disney World, each of which repackages African visual culture for consumers. Because these cultural icons permeate American life, they represent the broader U.S. culture and its relationship to African culture. This study integrates approaches from art history and visual culture studies with those from culture, race, and popular culture studies to analyze this interchange. Two major threads weave throughout. One analyzes how the presentation of African visual culture in these popular culture forms conceptualizes Africa for the American public. The other investigates the way the uses of African visual culture focuses America's own self-awareness, particularly around black and white racialized identities. In exploring the multiple meanings that “Africa” has in American popular culture, Africa in the American Imagination argues that these cultural products embody multiple perspectives and speak to various sociopolitical contexts: the Cold War, civil rights, and contemporary eras of the United States; the apartheid and post-apartheid eras of South Africa; the colonial and postcolonial eras of Ghana; and the European era of African colonization.
The Barbie Chronicles
The Barbie Chronicles - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Barbie Chronicles write by Yona Zeldis McDonough. This book was released on 2011-01-11. The Barbie Chronicles available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A THOROUGHLY GROWN-UP LOOK AT A TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSE OF OUTSTANDING PROPORTIONS To some she's a collectible, to others she's trash. In The Barbie Chronicles, twenty-three writers join together to scrutinize Barbie's forty years of hateful, lovely disastrous, glorious influence on us all. No other tiny shoulders have ever, had to carry the weight of such affection and derision and no other book has ever paid this notorious little place of plastic her due. Whether you adore her or abhor her, The Barbie Chronicles will have you looking at her in ways you never imagined.
