Baby Love by Maud Bryt
In 2019 Barbie turns 60. Never only a toy, she defines the stellar. In Plastic's Republic, Giovanna Riccio delves into Barbie's impact on female beauty highlighting how plasticity in body and persona have allowed the doll to remain top-diva. Other poems bring to life, Mattel's movers-n-shakers who created Barbie to be their in-house money maker. Riccio's Plastications lyrics illustrate how Barbie's mouldable nature lets Mattel position their high achiever as ever-relevant, arguably, by exploiting social trends, political movements and historical events. In the Human Barbies section, Barbie becomes plastic surgery's prophet, spawning 'plastic-positive' people who see their bodies as raw material suitable for actual and virtual surgical doctoring. Riccio's witty, inimitable poems portray Barbie as a complex, contradictory global celebrity, but also explore the philosophical, feminist and body-image issues that this plastic goddess engenders.| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780440508229 |
| ISBN 10 | 0440508223 |
| Title | Baby Love |
| Author | Maud Bryt |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dell Publishing Company |
| Year published | 1999-01-25 |
| Number of pages | 126 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |