Project 1 Summary
How Barbie Relates To Suburbia
Barbie has been a part of
suburbia for over 40 years and has changed along with suburbia and its
ideas. Barbie began as every little girls dream of what the perfect woman
should be. She had the cute boyfriend, the great looks, best
cars and houses, along with anything else that she could get. These ideas
had to change as women's roles began changing because mothers did not want
their daughters to grow up to be superficial like Barbie was. They
wanted their little girls to be doctors, lawyers, and have other
professional
careers, instead of just a housewife wasting away.
Barbie changed in a positive
way beginning in the early seventies to conform with the increasing roles
of women in America. Barbie was illustrated more as a professional-type
woman with her own ideas. She came with business style suits along with
evening gowns to show that she could be smart and pretty. These new
product lines showed the suburban little girls that they could be
businesswomen, too, and they could think for themselves without a man
dictating them.
As you can see, Barbie became
an artifact of suburbia through changing along with the ideals and views
the suburban woman thought were important for their little girls to
believe in.
Now go to the project itself on Barbie As An
Artifact of Suburbia.