[Vwoolf] Barbie's dream house (of her own)

[Mark Scott]

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I was listening to our local National Public Radio station a couple of days 
ago and happened to hear a review of the Barbie movie from NPR's Fresh Air 
book critic, Maureen Corrigan, Professor of the Practice in Literary 
Criticism at Georgetown University.  Professor Corrigan had this, among 
other, things, to say about the Barbie doll as she described how Barbie was 
different from the baby dolls that preceded her:

"But Barbie could fend for herself. Like Nancy Drew, she drove her own 
roadster and lived in her own dream house — Virginia Woolf's room of one's 
own painted in pastels. Barbie didn't teach girls to be of service; she 
taught us the giddy pleasures of a seeming autonomy — "seeming" because 
Barbie's autonomy, which the film hilariously depicts in its opening version 
of "Barbie Land," is limited to the gender norms of pre-second wave 
feminism, encased in pink bubble wrap."

A pastel Malibu dream house of her own....

Mark Scott
Common Reader