Come on Barbie, let’s go take a potentially controversial look at 2023’s biggest summer blockbuster! We’re talking about Mattel’s dubious history, what Barbieland is, and how the film does and does not tackle the truth and diversity of girlhood and womanhood.
Some Sources You Might Find Interesting:
Barbie: A Subversive Review by Carefree Wandering
explaining the hyperfemininity aesthetic by Mina Le
Just a Girl by Gayle Wald
Bimbos are good, actually by Morgan Sung
We’ve Reached Peak Girl by Delia Cai
The ‘Girlification’ Of Online Life Has A Dark Side by Merryana Salem
Girlhood Interrupted: The Erasure of Black Girls’ Childhood by Rebecca Epstein, Jamilia J. Blake, and Thalia Gonzalez
The Resurgence of the Monstrous Feminine by Hannah Williams
The Hunger Fed by ‘Barbie’ and Taylor Swift by Michelle Goldberg
Barbie’s legacy is important. It’s also incredibly complicated by Natalia Mehlman Petrzela
Barbie used to be everything wrong with patriarchal beauty ideals, feminist professor says. Now she’s closer to ‘queer camp’ by Carol Hay
Social critique from Archivist Ken by Isaac Fellman
Feeling Cynical About Barbie by Broey Deschanel
The rise and rise of ‘dewy dumpling skin’ by Jessica DeFino
Barbie Has Cellulite (But You Don’t Have To) by Jessica DeFino
The Plastic Feminism of Barbie by Verilybitchie
everything was pink and nothing hurt: on barbie (2023), pinkydoll, and the dialectics of feminist pop culture by Caitlyn Clark
“Ritualizing My Humanity” by J. A. Micheline
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