Made to play house : dolls and the commercialization of American girlhood, 1830-1930
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Made to play house : dolls and the commercialization of American girlhood, 1830-1930
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
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Originally published: New Haven : Yale University Press, c1993
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In Made to Play House, Miriam Formanek-Brunell traces the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dolls and explores the origins of the American toy industry's remarkably successful efforts to promote self fulfillment through maternity and materialism. She tells the fascinating story of how inventors, producers, entrepreneurs-many of whom were women-and little girls themselves created dolls which expressed various notions of female identity.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Politics of Dollhood in Nineteenth-Century America
Chapter 2. Masculinity, Technology, and the Doll Economy, 1860-1906
Chapter 3. In The Dolls' House, the Material Maternalism of Martha Chase, 1889-1914
Chapter 4. Marketing a Campbell Kids Culture, Engendering New Kid Dolls, 1902-1914
Chapter 5. New Women and Talismen, Rose O'Neill and the Kewpies, 1909-1914
Chapter 6. Forging the American Doll Industry, 1914-1929
Chapter 7. Children's Day, Constructing a Consumer Culture For Girls, 1900-1930
Epilogue: Agents or Agency, Dolls in Modern America Since 1930
Notes
Index
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