Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930 - Hardcover

Formanek–brunel, Miriam

 
9780300050721: Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930

Synopsis

As an illustrated social history of the American doll industry this book describes how dolls and doll play changed over time from Gilded Age fashion dolls which inculcated formal social rituals, to the realistic baby dolls of the 1920s fostering girls' maternal impulses.

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About the Author

Miriam Formanek-Brunell is visiting research scholar at the Center for Research on Women at Wellesley College.

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