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Why Barbie Lives On

The Waves: Gender, Relationships, Feminism

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Barbie: A Camp Sensitivity

M.G. Lord: Barbie is a symbol of an ancient matriarchal religion. She was hated because Gloria Steinem sort of called her the incarnation of the feminine mystique, she says. But different times, you know, in different times, these ideas around gender become very different," he says. "A thing is never really a thing. It's a thing in air quotes"

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