In the essay "Our Barbies, Ourselves," Emily Prager explores the history of the Barbie doll and talks about the Barbie doll itself. Prager seems convinced that the Barbie doll...
Barbie: The Cultural Icon
Cultural icons are not just merely widely recognized persons or things; they inspire keen interest and dedication, if not obsession and addiction on...
Satires are made to ridicule society and Brave New World is a classic example. Several elements are ridiculed in Huxley's novel that were true then and are still very tru...
Relations
by Eula Biss
Posted: March 17, 2008
Photo courtesy of Meryl Schenker and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
In New York City, in the spring of 1999, a story hit...