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Author: Trula Magruder
Publisher: American Girl Publishing Incorporated
Published: 2010-08-30
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781593697969
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →With over 60 games, crafts, and activities in this book, girls will discover hours of playtime fun with their dolls. Together, they can create a doll-sized bowling center; set up an animal shelter for plush pets; plus make jewelry, furnishings, and other pretty doll dcor.
Author: Mary Engelbreit
Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Published: 1998-06-01
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780836251999
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Mary Engelbreit fans know you don't have to be a child to treasure the artist's adorable paper dolls. Devoted adult collectors, in fact, clamor for Mary Engelbreit's cut-out companions.Both books are designed with storage pockets that hold clothes after they've been cut out -- a unique feature for paper doll books. In addition, Mary Engelbreit presents other fun activities for kids within the books' pages.
Author: Emilie Zaslow
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2017-08-14
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1137566493
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This critical account of the American Girl brand explores what its books and dolls communicate to girls about femininity, racial identity, ethnicity, and what it means to be an American. Emilie Zaslow begins by tracing the development of American Girl and situates the company’s growth and popularity in a social history of girl power media culture. She then weaves analyses of the collection’s narrative and material representations with qualitative research on mothers and girls. Examining the dolls with both a critical eye and a fan’s curiosity, Zaslow raises questions about the values espoused by this iconic American brand.
Author: Charlotte Zolotow
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 1985-05-01
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 0064430677
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than anything, William wants a doll. "Don't be a creep," says his brother. "Sissy, sissy," chants the boy next door. Then one day someone really understands William's wish, and makes it easy for others to understand, too.
Author: Elisabeth Lynn Cameron
Publisher:
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 140
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From Preface: "This publication challenges the prevailing opinion among scholars of African art that the word doll is an inappropriate designation for many genres of African art to which it is often applied. The word, it seems, evokes a limited set of images that are incompatible with the stereotype of African sculpture as objects laden with ritual and religious associations, associations which to many minds preclude any consideration of play as part of their existence. Our basic premise for this volume is that the problem is not the application of doll to African contexts but rather a profound misunderstanding of what a doll is. Playing with dolls, we argue, is serious business, and we in the United States and elsewhere in the Western world probably take ours too lightly. While the average parent views these figures as relatively inconsequential objects, it is becoming increasingly clear to social scientists that they can be active in establishing value systems and constructing identities...."
Author: Miriam Forman-Brunell
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2021-03-03
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 1800731043
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In recent decades, emerging scholarship in the field of girlhood studies has led to a particular interest in dolls as sources of documentary evidence. Deconstructing Dolls pushes the boundaries of doll studies by expanding the definition of dolls, ages of doll players, sites of play, research methods, and application of theory. By utilizing a variety of new approaches, this collected volume seeks to understand the historical and contemporary significance of dolls and girlhood play, particularly as they relate to social meanings in the lives of girls and young women across race, age, time, and culture.
Author: Kallie George
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-06-05
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1534401229
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When toys need a little (or a lot of!) TLC, they head to the Doll Hospital in this endearing picture book in the tradition of Doc McStuffins. Don’t worry, toys, Dr. Pegs will have you feeling better in no time! It’s a quiet morning at the Doll Hospital until… DING-A-LING-A-LING! The emergency bells ring! Here comes a patient who needs Dr. Pegs’s help. Dr. Pegs is about to get to work when… DING-A-LING-A-LING! Here comes another patient! And another! How will Dr. Pegs take care of them all? Looks like the doctor needs some help herself!
Author: Tennessee Williams
Publisher: New Directions Publishing
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 236
ISBN-13: 9780811211666
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"First published clothbound and as New Directions paperbook 714 in 1991"--[T.p. verso].
Author: Miriam Formanek-Brunell
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 1998-11-30
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780801860621
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Author: Lisa Pavlik-Malone
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published: 2014-07-24
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13: 1443864765
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this second volume, following Dolls & Clowns & Things, the author once again explores the symbolic relationship between the self and the object. This time, however, the possible fundamental role of cognitive consonance, characterized here as the ability of the mind to integrate opposing ideas into a single expanded understanding of Self, is studied in terms of how it might relate to the following three categories of intuitive experience. One, my physical object, in which consonance or “wholeness” expands one’s understanding of Self when ideas about “youngness” and “oldness” become integrated as part of episodic memories that involve an actual physical (toy) doll. Two, my objectified being, in which consonance takes place when, again, ideas about “youngness” and “oldness” become integrated through the metaphoric objectification of certain points located on the human female body. And three, in which consonance develops as “youngness” and “oldness” ideas become integrated through a doll as a work of art. Within the theoretical framework of each of these three categories, various psychological dynamics which encompass memory, metaphor, and neuroplasticity, are understood to be essential to the molding and shaping of one’s subjective experience of “doll”.
