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• W4306652133 abstract "In contrast to other objects of play, dolls have garnered a fairly sizable literature. They are used for their status as objects of aspiration, as symbols of femininity and commercialism, and to demonstrate the socialisation of children into gendered roles. However, any historian looking at material culture knows that the object and the interactions with that object are connected but different things. Deconstructing Dolls is fully aware of this and addresses this difference eloquently, demonstrating in its chapters the tension between designer intention and how girls use these objects to construct and negotiate their own meanings. Doll studies have been largely dominated by the US, the home of ever-popular commercial powerhouses such as Barbie and American Girl. Deconstructing Dolls is also largely focused on the US, linking dolls and play with dolls as being formative and constructive to the negotiation of varying American girlhoods. However, there are two chapters that deviate geographically; one focused on paper dolls and the books that accompanied them published in the UK in the nineteenth century, and another on how Black girls navigate race, class and gender in Toronto. While Deconstructing Dolls may not have a broad geographical variety, the multidisciplinary approaches from its contributors make this collection valuable to researchers from different disciplines and parts of the world. The collection also features a refreshingly varied number of different girlhoods. Black, ethnic minority, Jewish, working class, migrant, rural and urban girlhoods are all addressed and explored. The construction of racial and class identities and an awareness of history and exclusion demonstrated via dolls and play is perhaps the strongest theme of the book. It shows not only the essential inclusion of these identities and awareness in the analysis of dolls and play but how dolls and play provide a unique and fruitful avenue for researching identity more broadly. Material objects with so many potential meanings, such as dolls, benefit when the analysis involving them features varied methodological and theoretical approaches. This is one of Deconstructing Dolls' greatest strengths. The edited collection ranges from intimate personal histories, interviews and observations with groups, to using architectural theory to discuss Barbie's Dreamhouse. Because of this, the collection will offer something of interest and use to a wide range of researchers. The range of methodologies and theories in play also demonstrates the need for inter- and multi-disciplinary approaches needed to address the research of play. Despite the broad range of multidisciplinary approaches, Deconstructing Dolls does not provide a quantitative survey of dolls and the play that happened with them. The chapters that address play are concerned with qualitative research, focusing on smaller groups or personal analysis. The history of play is lacking in more quantitative approaches. Considering the transient and highly personal nature of play this is not surprising. While the book is mainly focused on the research of smaller scope and size, it does not necessarily suffer from this. Rather what it provides is a considered and thought-provoking series of chapters that not only address the materiality of dolls but give the players of dolls a strong voice and presence throughout. These strong and clear voices are vital when considering the recurring motif in the chapters of dolls being a site of multiple and often complex meanings, meanings that can be contradictory to the intention of doll manufacturers. This more intimate smaller scope research fully allows the children and girls who play (or played) with dolls to remain at the forefront, rather than being overwhelmed and obfuscated by academic hypothesising. The methodological and disciplinary range of the contributions to Deconstructing Dolls makes this both an excellent introduction to those interested in histories of play and girlhood, while also providing unique and much-needed insights for those familiar with the literature." @default.
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• W4306652133 title "Deconstructing dolls: Girlhoods and the meanings of play Edited by MiriamForman‐Brunell: Berghahn Books; 2021, ISBN 978‐1‐80 073‐103‐5 (pb), 182pp., £23.95 (pb)" @default.
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