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

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Thanks for this, Mark.
" Professor of the Practice in Literary Criticism" is fascinating too! 

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From: Vwoolf <vwoolf-bounces at lists.osu.edu> On Behalf Of Mark Scott via Vwoolf
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Subject: [Vwoolf] Barbie's dream house (of her own)

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 

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