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Barbie As Cultural Compass: Embodiment, Representation, And Resistance Surrounding The World’S Most Iconized Doll, Hannah Tulinski
Barbie As Cultural Compass: Embodiment, Representation, And Resistance Surrounding The World’S Most Iconized Doll, Hannah Tulinski
Sociology Student Scholarship
Since 1959 the Barbie doll has held the status of cultural icon in American society. In the past six decades Barbie has dominated the toy industry as an unmatched competitor among girls’ dolls, generating approximately $1 billion in annual sales. Originally intended by her creator Ruth Handler to “allow girls to project their future self,” Barbie continues to remain a household name, and it has been estimated that each American girl owns an average of eight Barbie dolls (Newman 2013). As a cultural object, Barbie continues to re-enter the “human circuit of discourse” (Griswold 1987) with each changing public appearance, …
A Conversation With Jamie Hoag
A Conversation With Jamie Hoag
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1998.
Interview keywords: Outfront, Chaplain's Office, Catholicism, religious, relationships, student involvement, government
A Conversation With Christopher Brown
A Conversation With Christopher Brown
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross Alum who graduated in 2004. Highlights of this conversation include content on the interviewee’s transition to the Holy Cross community, extracurricular involvements, spiritual life, and career in student services at St. Benedictine College in New York state.
Interview keywords: Allies, ABiGaLe, Office of Student Affairs
A Conversation With Mark Thivierge
A Conversation With Mark Thivierge
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1970.
Interview keywords: social movements, 1960's, activism
A Conversation With Michael Mccarthy
A Conversation With Michael Mccarthy
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1973.
Interview keywords: theater, law, Fenwick Scholar, Vietnam War
A Conversation With Suzanne Lamoureux Kriesant
A Conversation With Suzanne Lamoureux Kriesant
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1998. Highlights of this conversation include content on being bisexual at Holy Cross.
Interview keywords: ABiGale, bisexuality
A Conversation With George Grattan
A Conversation With George Grattan
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1991. Highlights of this conversation include George's reflections on the Holy Cross campus climate during the early 1990's, bisexuality, and the coming out process.
Interview keywords: closet, college, coming out, family, Jesuit, professional life, study abroad, support
A Conversation With Connelly Akstens
A Conversation With Connelly Akstens
LGBTQ Alumni Oral History Project
This conversation represents an oral history interview with a Holy Cross alum who graduated in 1968. Highlights of this conversation include reflections on living as a closeted transgender person at Holy Cross in the 1960's and her transgender outreach efforts following her time at Holy Cross.
Interview keywords: activists, academics, basketball, closet, colleges, coming out, communities, compartmentalisation, Digital Transgender Archive, conferences, educators, free inquiry, intersex, Jesuit, musicians, provision of information, relationships, Roman Catholicism, sports, sportspersons, students, transgender community, transgender identity, transgender people, writers