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Volume 4
Transnational Girlhoods
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An American Icon in Puerto Rico
Barbie, Girlhood, and Colonialism at Play
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez
208 pages, 12 images, bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-386-2 $135.00/£99.00 / Hb / Published (February 2022)
ISBN 978-1-80539-111-1 $27.95/£22.95 / Pb / Not Yet Published (June 2023)
eISBN 978-1-80073-387-9 eBook
Description
Since her creation in 1959, Barbie has become an icon of femininity to girls all over the world. In this study, author Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez focuses on a group of multigenerational Puerto Rican women and girls, exploring how playing with Barbie dolls as children has impacted their lives. By documenting the often-complicated relationships girls have with Barbie dolls, Aguiló-Pérez highlights the ways through which women and girls construct their own identities in relation to femininity, body image, race, and nationalism through Barbie play.
Emily R. Aguiló-Pérez is an Assistant Professor of English at West Chester University of Pennsylvania. Her work has appeared in publications including The Looking Glass: New Perspectives on Children’s Literature, Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies, and Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures. She served as guest editor for a special issue of Girlhood Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, and she is a book reviewer for Latinxs in Kid Lit.
Subject: Gender Studies and SexualityCultural Studies (General)Sociology
Area: Latin America and the Caribbean
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