Part of Barbie’s power is the kind of projection she invites. “I designed バービー with a blank face so that the child could project her own dreams of the future onto Barbie,” Handler 発言しました in her book, “Dream Doll.” “I never wanted to play up the glamorous life of Barbie. I wanted the owner to create a personality for the doll.” Even the talking Barbies that appeared on the market never enjoyed the ascendancy that the mute, yet eloquent ドール did.
Barbie was both a child of her time and completely cutting edge. As the historian and 作者 Stephanie Coontz has written, “the marketability...
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