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May 10, 2013 03:58 pm PDT
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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. [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/0lJ-Oab001Q/story01.htm
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