Greta Gerwig's Barbie (2023) is deeply invested in the liberatory and transformative potential
of children's play. Children's play in Barbie is the site of self-actualisation for adult women …

I explore Barbie (2023) through the lens of cyberfeminism to argue that Barbie Land can be
conceptualised as a cyberfeminist utopia. I draw specifically on Donna Haraway's concept of …

This chapter focuses on two very different tween entertainment franchises and their
monstrous-feminine protagonists: Monster High (2010–present) weaves webisodes and …

This thesis collects three essays which deal with the use of identities as a marketing device;
investigating how capitalism informs and reduces identities, like race, gender, and sexuality …

The Barbie doll has jostled alongside feminism for the past sixty years, and has been read
both as emblematic of women's independence and as symptomatic of patriarchal …

This chapter discusses feminist art activism and the creation of the character
'ArtActivistBarbie,'a fearless, feminist Barbie doll who is staged and posed in art galleries …

This article explores the kinetic and aesthetic pleasures of girlhood in Barbie. Through
technologies of glamour and consumerism, Barbie invites spectators to window shop in a …

Abstract DC Super Hero Girls (DCSHG) is a trans-media franchise that includes not just
screen media texts but a wide array of themed merchandise aimed at a multi-generational …

Mattel's tween girl property Monster High is a transmedia project that reworks classic
monsters from history and cinema into teenagers attending a high school specifically for …

When introducing the Best Adapted Screenplay Academy Award at the 2024 ceremony host
Jimmy Kimmel joked this 'is actually a controversial category this year because a lot of …