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Journal articles on the topic "American Girl Doll"

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Leon-Boys, Diana. "America's Favorite Doll?" Girlhood Studies 13, no. 1 (2020): 138–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2020.130111.

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Kita, Terry. "Unintentional Cooperation." Journal of Japonisme 3, no. 2 (2018): 129–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24054992-00032p01.

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Abstract This study of the Friendship Doll Mission of 1926-1927 shows how, in the United States, the Japanese doll was part of the inescapable image of a kimono-clad little Japanese girl, and functioned to further existing anti-Japanese implications of that image. It further shows how an American popular-culture mission to improve relations with Japan by having American children exchange dolls with Japanese children, created an official, Japanese government response that presented the United States with Japanese dolls that were objects of Fine Art. Despite the different views of the Doll Mission in Japan and the US, an interchange resulted that, now nearly a century later, continues. The article uses Japanese dolls to demonstrate how genuine cultural exchange can occur even when the methods, approaches, and the very intent of those involved in it differ, in order to highlight the importance of considering both perspectives to understand phenomena such as Japonisme.
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Zaslow, Emilie. "Which Vitamins are in the Chocolate Cake? How American Girl Marketing Has Responded to Shifting Discourses About Gender and Race." Public Historian 43, no. 1 (2021): 18–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2021.43.1.18.

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Pleasant Rowland, who founded the American Girl historical doll, accessory, and book collection in the mid-1980s, claimed that her dolls were like “chocolate cake with vitamins,” enjoyable, but also educational. Although history has always played a part in the American Girl brand, its role has fluctuated over time in concert with changing social discourses about gender and race in American culture. This essay explores how the brand has engaged with these shifting discourses over the last thirty years as it determines how to invite children and their parents to encounter the brand’s retelling of the past. How have the “vitamins” that Rowland imagined for her consumers changed over time as the seventeen historical characters have been created, rebranded, and marketed in contemporary America?
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Sardella-Ayres, Dawn. "Playing with America’s Doll: A Cultural Analysis of the American Girl Collection by Emilie Zaslow." Lion and the Unicorn 43, no. 2 (2019): 302–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2019.0030.

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Rosner, Molly. "The American Girl Company and the Uses of Nostalgia in Children’s Consumer Culture." Jeunesse: Young People, Texts, Cultures 6, no. 2 (2014): 35–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.3138/jeunesse.6.2.35.

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Since the mid-1980s, thousands of girls have encountered history through the American Girl books, dolls, and merchandise. Drawing on the work of Fredric Jameson and Arjun Appadurai, both of whom comment on the ways in which historical narratives are always imbued with nostalgia, this paper argues that by creating purchasable “artifacts” for dolls, American Girl has drawn on nostalgic consumer impulses to create longing for an imagined and sanitized history. As American Girl has changed its focus from historical dolls to contemporary dolls, its message has become more focused on individuality, fashion, and personal improvement.
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Horrocks, Allison, and Mary Mahoney. "American Girls." Public Historian 43, no. 1 (2021): 164–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/tph.2021.43.1.164.

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Since Pleasant Rowland launched the American Girl brand in 1986, the popular dolls and books have inspired generations of young people. The American Girls Podcast, developed and produced by two historians, re-examines the world of American Girl, applying historical analysis and social commentary to understand how formative the brand was for their own and others’ lives. The podcast has also cultivated a community of listeners who continue to engage with the dolls and stories in innovative ways; in this way, the show serves as a forum for ongoing conversations about the meaning of American Girl.
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Li, Melody. "Nightclub as a Liminal Space: Space, Gender, and Identity in Lisa See’s China Dolls." Humanities 7, no. 4 (2018): 126. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/h7040126.

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Nightclubs flourished in San Francisco’s Chinatown in the late 1930s when it became a nightlife destination. To Chinese Americans, however, San Francisco nightclubs became a new site at the time for them to re-explore their identities. For some, visiting these nightclubs became a way for them to escape from traditional Chinese values. For others, it became a way to satisfy Western stereotypes of Chinese culture. Lisa See’s China Dolls (2015) describes three young oriental women from various backgrounds that become dancers at the popular Forbidden City nightclub in San Francisco in the late 1930s. Through the three girls’ precarious careers and personal conflicts, Lisa See proposes the San Francisco nightclub as both a site for them to articulate their new identities beyond their restricted spheres and a site for them to perform the expected stereotypical Asian images from Western perspectives. It was, at that time, a struggle for the emergence of modern Chinese women but particularly a paradox for Chinese-American women. The space of the Chinese-American nightclub, which is exotic, erotic, but stereotypical, represents contradictions in the Chinese-American identity. Through studying Lisa See’s novel along with other autobiographies of the Chinese American dancing girls, I argue that San Francisco nightclubs, as represented in Lisa See’s novel, embody the paradox of Chinese American identities as shown in the outfits of Chinese American chorus girls—modest cheongsams outside and sexy, burlesque costumes underneath.
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Chuppa-Cornell, Kim. "When Fact Is Stranger than Fiction: Hair in American Girl Stories and Dolls." Lion and the Unicorn 37, no. 2 (2013): 107–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/uni.2013.0020.

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Terry, Jennifer Robin. "Playing with America's Dolls: A Cultural Analysis of the American Girl Collection. EmilieZaslow. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. 204 pp. $109.99 cloth." Journal of Popular Culture 52, no. 3 (2019): 731–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jpcu.12789.

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Brookfield, Molly. "From American Girls into American Women: A Discussion of American Girl Doll Nostalgia." Girlhood Studies 5, no. 1 (2012). http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/ghs.2012.050105.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "American Girl Doll"

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Clarke, Christopher Carlyle. "“Girls Play with Dolls and Boys Play with Soldiers”: Examining Teachers and Parents' Gender Beliefs and the Gender Identity of 8-10 Year Old Jamaican Boys." Scholar Commons, 2007. https://scholarcommons.usf.edu/etd/180.

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This multi-case ethnographic study examined the gender beliefs of two teachers and 12 parents and the gender identity of thirty 8-10 year old boys in two primary schools in Jamaica. The study was conducted against the background of gross underachievement among Jamaican boys and the research literature pointing to gender socialization as a factor in the declining results and interest in academic studies. Through 10 weeks of observations, interviews and focus group discussions answers were sought for the following questions: 1. What beliefs do teachers hold about gender? 2. What beliefs do parents hold about gender? 3. What are boys' perceptions of their gender identity? From the data collected it was revealed that teachers' expressed beliefs was not always consistent with their classroom practices; teachers traditional methods even though recognising that girls and boys have different learning styles; boys arrived at school far less prepared to work than girls; they were more likely to be off task than were girls; they identified strongly and early with traditional masculinity in the process devaluing anything feminine; parents, particularly mothers felt powerless to change the attitudes of boys towards school work; they allow their boys far more latitude to play at home and in many instances failed to help them develop a sense of responsibility. Parents held traditional gender beliefs guided mostly by religious teachings. In the matter of careers however, they were prepared to allow their sons to work in traditional female careers. The findings suggest the need for a radical redefinition of what it means to be masculinity, one which will allow boys to embrace feminine values and attitudes. The central education authorities in Jamaica need a clear gender policy for schools; schools need to work closer with parents for a greater level of consistency in the socialization of boys. Finally, teacher preparation programmes need to pay more than lip service to gender in the education process. Teachers in training need to understand that their socialization practices are driven by their beliefs and impact the development of boys and girls' identities.
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Books on the topic "American Girl Doll"

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Simmons, Dennis. Making furniture & dollhouses for American Girl and other 18-inch dolls. 2nd ed. Fox Chapel Pub., 2009.

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Making wooden furniture for American Girl and other 18-inch dolls. 3rd ed. Fox Chapel Publishing, 2013.

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Simmons, Dennis. Making furniture & dollhouses for American Girl and other 18-inch dolls. 2nd ed. Fox Chapel Pub., 2009.

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The cameo necklace: A Cecile mystery. American Girl Pub., 2012.

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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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Forman-Brunell, Miriam. Made to play house: Dolls and the commercialization of American girlhood, 1830-1930. Yale University Press, 1993.

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Hunt, Kathryn McMurtry. Helping hands. Texas Tech University Press, 2004.

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Kirsten Mini Doll (American Girl). American Girl, 2006.

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Na. Kit Mini Doll (American Girl). American Girl, 2006.

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Molly Mini Doll (American Girl). American Girl, 2006.

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Book chapters on the topic "American Girl Doll"

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Zaslow, Emilie. "Branding the American Girl: The Making of Cultural Icons." In Playing with America's Doll. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56649-2_2.

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Zaslow, Emilie. "“This Is My Home”: Representing Race, Ethnicity, and the American Experience in American Girl." In Playing with America's Doll. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56649-2_6.

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Zaslow, Emilie. "Situating American Girl: Tools of Socialization in a Changing Culture." In Playing with America's Doll. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56649-2_3.

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Zaslow, Emilie. "From “This Where Freedom Supposed to Be At” to “She Knew She Would Never Stop Speaking Out for What Was Right”: Racial Logics and African American Identity in American Girl." In Playing with America's Doll. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-56649-2_5.

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Zaslow, Emilie, and Jaclyn Griffith. "Unpacking Logan: The Construction of Masculinity in the American Girl Boy Doll." In The Marketing of Children’s Toys. Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62881-9_13.

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"Making Americans: The American Girl Doll and American Girl Place." In Performing Consumers. Routledge, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780203449042-11.

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"5 Selling Multicultural Girlhood: The American Girl Doll, 1986 to Present." In Playing with History. Rutgers University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36019/9781978822115-006.

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Brookfield, Molly. "From American Girls into American Women:." In Deconstructing Dolls. Berghahn Books, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctv2tsxk4x.9.

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Brookfield, Molly. "Chapter 3. From American Girls into American Women." In Deconstructing Dolls. Berghahn Books, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9781800731042-007.

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Roberts, Robin. "Reclaiming Life and History: The Amazons Benevolent Society and the Black Storyville Baby Dolls." In Downtown Mardi Gras. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496823786.003.0007.

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This chapter focuses on The Amazons Social Aid and Benevolent Society and The Black Storyville Baby Dolls. The Amazons is group of breast cancer survivors, both natives and transplants, who provide support to other survivors while celebrating life through costuming and parading. Wearing breastplates and brandishing swords, the group commandeers a militaristic posture that exudes strength and power. While the group’s main focus is social aid and support, the members use Mardi Gras parades to make a public statement of women’s empowerment. The Black Storyville Baby Dolls, also founded by Dianne Honoré, draw directly on the African-American tradition of Baby Dolls, the historical practice of adult women dressing as young girls, in beautiful outfits made of satin, dancing in the streets, and acting tough (smoking cigars). Both groups exemplify the use of Carnival as an opportunity to resist gender and race stereotypes.
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