`` Playing With Barbie By Lucinda Ebersole And Richard Peabody 's Garments Are The Main Fascination Of Barbie

The girls did realize that Barbie’s figure is not realistic since they are now older and felt that Barbie could stand to gain a few pounds. But at a younger age the girls did envy Barbie even though she would be very disproportionate if she were a real person.

In The Barbie Doll, the author writes about a girl' s life. The author starts off by describing her childhood. She was given dolls and toys like any other girl and she also wore hints of lipstick. This girl was healthy and rather intelligent. Even though she had possessed many good

Barbie herself is the quintessential model of female beauty; however, she represents both the oppression and liberation of women. She is a “jack of all trades” encouraging children, especially females, to pursue whatever profession they wish. Romo states that what comes to mind when we think of Barbie “is white, physically appealing, not poor, heterosexual, popular, fashionable, and forever young. In sum. Barbie has come to represent the ideals and values of the social class that dominates our society.” (Romo 127). Barbie portrays women as objects of beauty, not of power. Cisneros piece is unique because she counters the idea that women must be perfect. In fact, she raises the idea that they are quite the opposite, the idea that everyone has hidden imperfections.

     Paragraph 7 talks about Prager?s feelings towards Barbie?s boyfriend, Ken. Prager feels that if Barbie was too sexual, then Ken was the opposite with little or no sexuality at all. His appearance was plain, a vast difference from the sculpted curves and slopes of Barbie?s body. Prager suggests that this is because of Ken?s concealed sexuality and Barbie?s exposed sexuality. His plastic painted on jockey briefs were a far cry from Barbie?s larger than life bra-free breasts. Prager continues with her conclusion that Barbie must somehow be sexually frustrated, because of Ken?s lack of sexuality, and no matter how sexy she is, or what she does, she will never be able to turn Ken on.

The poem, "Barbie Doll," written by Marge Piercy tells the story of a young girl growing up through the adolescence stage characterized by appearances and barbarity. The author uses imagery and fluctuating tone to describe the struggles the girl is experiencing during her teenage years, and the affects that can happen. The title of this poem is a good description of how most societies expect others, especially girls to look. Constantly, people are mocked for their appearance and expected to represent a "barbie-doll"-like figure. Few are "blessed" with this description. The female gender is positioned into the stereotype that women should be thin and beautiful. With this girl, the effects were detrimental. The first stanza describes the

In the article “Klaus Barbie, and Other Dolls I’d Like to See,” Susan Jane Gilman talks about how we create this doll that sends a message to girls that they have to look a certain way. Gilman talks about how Barbie sets the standard that girls have to be a tall, skinny, blonde, blue eyed, straight, white female (Gilman). It tells girls that if they were anything else, they were never going to be pretty enough or accomplish much because they do not look like the ideal woman. At another point in the article, Gilman talks about how Barbie has introduced other dolls that are different races but are only limited edition (Gilman). With these limited edition Barbie dolls, it furthers the fact that people who are not the stereotypical Barbie, are not as good. Since this ideal woman is now within the

​In either poem, metaphorical symbols and wording can be found. However, in order to understand the real meaning of these metaphorical symbols and wordings, the historical backgrounds of both poems must first be understood. “Barbie Doll”, by Marge Piercy, was written in the 1970’s, a decade of great importance and progress to the American Woman. The Women’s Rights Movement set prominent changes within society and challenged sexism, legal abortion, equal rights and oppression. In addition, beauty standards were evolving on a social level. The 70’s were known for “thinking thin”, bronzed skin, and big hair. Barbie has always been in the middle of controversy. Marge Piercy uses Barbie in the

In Marge Piercy's "Barbie Doll" a young girl is troubled by the classification of what it takes to become a beautiful woman. "Barbie Doll" details the image that society projects upon women. From an early age young women struggle to conform to the standards that society has defined for them. Beautiful dolls such as Barbie are frequently the first source of association that young girls have with the image that society has placed upon them.

“Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy is about a girl who is a normal child growing up; playing with dolls, miniature kitchen items and pretend make-up. It quickly takes an interesting turn when a pubescent child makes fun of her nose and legs and she was advised to exercise and diet despite the fact that she was intelligent and healthy. The poem continues on by the girl cutting her legs and nose and a bizarre visual of her laying in a casket with an ending that states “to every woman a happy ending”( Piercy 791). This poem was written by Piercy in 1969 a year in which many women liberation groups were forming and the breaking of womanly roles was taking place. The poem “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy,

Marge Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” is a short poem that focuses on the dramatic internal conflict that women face in their day-to-day lives, the struggle to decide to present themselves as they desire or to decide to present themselves the way society thinks they should. The speaker presents a woman by her natural physical features as well as what society deems to be her “imperfections.” The poet has organized the stanzas of the poem into a timeline of different stages of the girl’s life. However, the poet used no rhyme scheme for this poem; it presents a more straight forward and serious tone for the audience. Using a third-person point of view, the speaker is able to explain the situation as it plays out through the stanzas, which also gives the audience insight that the speaker has witnessed this several times before because he or she does not speak as if they are surprised by the unfolding of these events.

The poem seeks to explain and make sense of a tragic situation by first introducing the history of the young female, the subject of “Barbie Doll”. The first four lines of the first stanza represent a rite of passage. Lines 1-2 state,

It wasn’t until the late 1960’s that critics began “comparing Barbie to a Playboy Bunny and calling her a corrupter of youth” (”Bad Girl” 3). One woman commented, “She’s an absurd representation of what a woman should be” (“Bad Girl” 3)-–and that’s exactly what many others thought she was, too. With such impossible real-life measurements of 5’9” tall, 36”-18”-33” bust, waist, and hip (Benstock and Ferriss 35), it’s easy to see why mothers across the country banned the doll from their homes and refused to let their impressionable young daughters be influenced by a piece of painted plastic (Bestock and Ferriss 35). Since dolls have often been responsible for teaching children what society deems important or beautiful, many concerned parents wondered why Mattel did not design a doll that taught more valuable lessons than dressing pretty and being dangerously skinny (Edut 19)? Who said a runway model was best suited for teaching a child what is beautiful anyway? “According to a Mattel spokesperson, a Kate Moss figure is better suited for today’s fashions” (Edut 19), and that is one reason why Barbie must be so disproportional. Actually, another reason for Barbie’s anorexic figure can be traced back long before Kate Moss and the fashion runway. Barbie was

Almost every girl has owned a Barbie at some point in her life; a doll that looks like the prepossessing girl in the world. She has a stunning body and a flawless face; everything seems so perfect until one really examines the proportions. These unrealistic proportions change the views of little girls and how they think they need to look when older. Stories of girls ripping these dolls’ heads off are common as Valenti states that “[she] knows that [she] is not the only girl who ripped the heads off her Barbie dolls” because of the negativity wrapped around the stereotypical figure. The Barbie doll’s shape had been opposed for many years as it makes young girls think they need to have waists so small that they are anorexic.

I regard Barbie and similar dolls as Louis Althusser might have regarded them: as objects that do the dirty work of patriarchy and capitalism in the most insidious way - in the guise of child's play . . . Barbie is not simply a child's toy or just a teenage fashion doll; she is perhaps the icon - of true white womanhood and femininity, a