"Like academic studies of singer Madonna or romance novels, lectures and texts around the Barbie doll symbolise a crude, popular and conservative stereotype of the modern face of the academy and feminist discourse."
"Barbie is either a malign symbol of the knowing and ever-flexible strategies of the capitalist system, or she is a source of delight, a symbol of glamour, high fashion and style a fascinating index of cultural change and nostalgic memory."
"Women are tired of being de-feminised and looking like the opposite sex, she says 'they want to reclaim their femininity.'" (Marks 2001: 50)
Fashion dolls not only deliver supposedly 'inappropriate' sexuality to young girls, as well as being sexual/sexualised performers themselves, in the mind of the prudent and puritanical the fashion doll encourages 'foolish' girls and women to buy, buy, buy: each new dress, each new edition, to be a stooge, a running dog of capitalism."
"The idea that the Barbie doll has provided a singularly vivid index of the past four decades of fashion history has been established by significant fashion theorists like Jennifer Craik and Valerie Steele."
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