“Bimbon that puts könskampen on plastic”
“Barbie turns 60 – an ever-controversial icon”
“Aftonbladet’s leader board is the independent social democrat.”
“Symbolic, she made her debut on the day before the international women’s day. With sminktunga eyelids, red lips, ponytail and svartvitrandig swimsuit appeared the first barbie doll up at the toy fair Toy Fair in New York city, the ninth of march 1959. Sixty years later, the 29.2 centimeters high plastdockan sold over a billion copies and become the most commercially successful doll in history.”
“a few of my childhood’s best memories are the games with the Barbie. In the summer holidays we played from morning to night and built up the large winding Barbie worlds. A teburk could be a perfect dining table, food for the dolls we made of trolldeg and painted with watercolor, and the most amazing klädkreationer could fade up of a shawl or a simple paper towel.nwhen I was playing with Barbie outdoor that last summer vacation I and my buddies around 12 years old. As soon as peers or older children were seen in the vicinity, we pulled a big blanket over the dolls so that no one would discover how childish we were.”
“the Feelings were a mixture of shame and sorrow.”
“Barbie with hijab and prosthetic leg.”
“In the day drops leksaksförsäljningen the world over. Children choose away toys in favor of video games and the frogs. Barbien is an exception. When Barbie manufacturer Mattel presented her quarterly report a couple of weeks ago, it showed that the sales of the doll was the highest in five years.”
“The american prestigemagasinet Time put the curvy Barbien on the cover with the headline:”
“The american company explains the success that you have managed to do on the doll and displayed it in different skin colors and in garments such as the hijab and the space suit. Later in June will also be a Barbie doll with the prosthetic leg and a wheelchair-bound doll (the one with white skin color and blond hair and a black with afro hair) out on the market. This includes a ramp that makes barbie’s house wheelchair in the package. nMattel has commented on the addition to a wheelchair has been one of the most in-demand accessories to the barbie doll.”
“If it was formerly the Barbie that shaped the young girls (and a lot of boys) games, today it is the girls that shapes Barbiedockorna.”
“so Far, Barbie has had more than 130 different occupations, from nurse, officer and a waitress to the dentist, yoga instructor – and the american president.nRedan 1979, the first black and hispanic Barbiedockorna. A major impact was not the dolls with different skin and hair colors until Mattel introduerade barbie’s rock band ‘
“was Banned in Swedish kindergartens”
“three years ago reinvented the Mattel doll new and launched series”
“was the popular doll is still controversial. During the six decades, Barbie has been as loved as she is hated.”
“In the 1970s, was banned dolls many preschools in Sweden as they were seen to reflect an unhealthy body image. The slender doll with long legs, slim waist and big tits has been accused of causing anorexia and kroppskomplex in the young.n”
“Acclaimed by prominent feminists”
“barbie’s inventor, Ruth Handler, defended in the seventies, her doll with that”
“nBarnkulturforskaren and filmprofessorn Margareta Rönnberg has written an academic paper on” the
“the end of blogging, entrepreneur Isabella Löwengrip has also paid homage to the doll: ”Barbie was the best I knew until I was 12 years old.””
“the Criticism is about gender and class.”
“the adult world’s negative outlook on the Barbie has not changed much over the last six decades. Objections that are returned have been against barbie’s materialism, consumerism and stereotypes of femininity.”
“A big part of barbie’s success is all her clothes and accessories that can change in all eternity, and that means that there are always going to buy more and more things to the dolls. There are great similarities between Barbie and the popular reality-tv family the Kardashian, whose docklika sisters and extravagant lifestyle followed by millions of viewers in ten years time.”
“I realize now that under the blanket it there last summer with Barbie was one of the last 60 years, most charged political figures.”
“the Criticism of both Barbie and Kardashian is often as much about gender as a class. Journalist MG Lord, who has written two books about Barbie as a cultural phenomenon, has pointed at barbie’s appearance as a cause of many people’s disapproval towards the doll. The ever-happy Barbien with their synthetic clothes, high heels, too much makeup and ”
“rt, both the Barbies and the family Kardashian more attractive.nMG Lord writes in his book ”
“A feministikon and a kapitalistsuccé, a drömvävare and a distorted body image, a kvinnoförtryckare and flickfantasi.nSextio years and forever current.”
