Uncategorized – Humanities 104 https://hum104.commacafe.org Revolutions in Art and Thought Fri, 01 Aug 2025 14:22:06 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 Barbie https://hum104.commacafe.org/barbie/ Fri, 01 Aug 2025 13:38:27 +0000 https://hum104.commacafe.org/?p=2522 Continue reading →]]> Purchasing Identity with Barbie and Ken

In 2024 I attended an exhibit on the history of the Barbie line of dolls and toys. It struck me as an instructive example of consumerism, for good and for bad.
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No HW, but come to class having thought a bit about how kids play with Barbie and similar toys. What fantasies do these toys embody? What ideology do they deploy?

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