Playing with dolls may help children build empathy and better understand other people’s thoughts and feelings.
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Barbie has evolved over time. But a new study shows she isn’t ready to ditch the high heels just yet.
For people with dementia, memories from the distant past, including early parenthood, can be more salient that recent events.
Doll faces, whether of porcelain or plastic, mimic our own and so are imbued with an eerily uncanny hue.
Barbie’s houses, fashions, vehicles and even her face, hair and body can be seen as a pink-tinted reflection of western culture.
Being a mom can be heartbreaking, empowering, scary, fulfilling and everything in between.
As the supporting player to Barbie’s star, Ken unwittingly becomes the locus of little girls’ expectations of and frustrations with masculinity.
Barbie has had over 200 official careers. Often decked out in her signature pink, the doll has showed generations that they do not have to sacrifice their love of femininity in order to succeed.
Barbie has long functioned as a proxy onto which cultural aspirations and anxieties about womanhood are projected.
The DreamHouse blurs the lines between doll and human along with the boundaries between the real, monochromatic world of California and the fictional realm of the magical dollhouse.
Far from recoiling in terror, fans have dubbed animatronic murderous doll M3gan a ‘queer icon’ – a horror expert explains why.
Black children are prone to internalize messages of anti-Blackness. Can a Black doll that honors one of America’s most noteworthy Black women do anything to reverse the trend?
A new study found playing with ultra-thin dolls could make young girls want a thinner body.
Mattel created a new line of dolls because of research suggesting kids don’t want toys ‘dictated by gender norms’ – but supplanting those norms will take a lot more than that.
With advancements in technology, libraries are offering much more than something to read. A library researcher offers a sampling of some unexpected items that library patrons can check out these days.
An expert argues our connection with these figures is longstanding. They are embedded in our myths and help us explore deeper questions about being human.
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