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

[Anastasia H]

Having had a Barbie Dream House as a child, I think it would be terrific—a
three storey house with a large kitchen, elevator, and pool of my own!

On Fri, Jul 28, 2023 at 5:53 PM Mark Scott via Vwoolf <vwoolf at lists.osu.edu>
wrote:

> 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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