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May 10, 2013 03:58 pm PDT

American Girl dolls: from adventure heroes to helicopter-parented, sheltered juniorspa-bunnies

Writing in The Atlantic, Amy Schiller documents how Mattel has spent the past 15 years transforming the expensive, highly detailed American Girl dolls from a source of radical inspiration that signposted moments in the history of the struggles for justice and equality in the US, into posh upper-middle-class girls who raise money for bake sales. [...]



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