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Bahar-bie
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Bahar-bie: a OOAK Modern Iranian Barbie doll
another OOAK doll, as branded by me!
Here is a story of this unusual doll…
I spasmodic find myself erratic a aisles of Toys-R-Us, seeking for zero in particular. On a single new occasion, we beheld a Top Model Barbie was noted half price, as good as there were 3 dolls to select from. It seemed during slightest 80% of a batch were comprised of a blonde Barbie doll, with a residue being a red-haired Summer doll…and usually ONE Teresa doll was left upon a shelf. This appearance my curiosity, as we rught away found Teresa distant some-more engaging than her contemporaries. So we paid for her.
After we took her home, we Googled for a story of a Teresa doll, as good as was tender to find endless essay upon a subject, interjection to Google Books…
www.google.com/books?q=barbie+culture
No interjection to Google Books, duplicating as good as pasting content quotations is flattering many unfit during present. This plea led me to do a extensive content transcription from a book Core Cultural Icons – Barbie Culture by Mary F. Rogers, receiving a great cube from a section "(Hetero)Sexuality as good as competition in Barbie’s world"
pp 50-52
…Paralleling their perceptions have been those of many consumers who preference a white dolls as a many attractive, glamorous Barbies. Charlotte, a white mom whose daughter attends a Montessori school, reports that "We proposed out with Barbies of all secular backgrounds, yet small by small (my daughter) motionless that a usually flattering ones were blond with blue eyes… This disturbs me, as good as I’m not certain how to fight it solely to explain that a dark-haired Barbies have been my favorites."
In a opposite partial of a universe alternative children’s preferences run in a same direction. Elaine Sciolino (1997) reports that even yet Islamically scold versions of Barbie have been sole in Iran, a elite Barbies have been a alien ones – that is, a whilst ones in Western clothing.
That state of affairs reflects do secular as good as secular hierarchies where "white" prevails as clean, respectable, successful, as good as implicitly upright; full of health as good as attractive, too. People’s hackneyed preferences for white Barbie competence to illustrate simulate racialized notions during work in white-dominated societies. Note, for example, how Margo Rana (1996) describes a unequivocally white, blonde blue-eyed Dutch Barbie: "Barbie doll looks so purify as good as frail in her standard Netherlands outfit." Whatever particular peoples perceptions competence be, Mattel mostly promotes – either by pattern or by default – a unequivocally perceptions Rana illustrates. The dolls themselves, a informative texts built in to Mattel’s wrapping as good as advertisements, as good as Mattel-authorized books as good as alternative printed materials communicate a doubled-sided message: White is widespread as good as normal (read "superior") whilst non-white, together with Hispanic, is subordinate as good as opposite (read "inferior").
The dolls bespeak these messages many loudly of all. Consider Teresa, Barbie’s Hispanic friend. According to J. Michael Augustyniak (1996a), Teresa came upon a marketplace in 1998. When his 1996 essay was starting to press, twenty-one versions had been issued. Not a single Teresa has to do with a career or job, propagandize or learning, matrimony or family. Instead, Teresa’s purposes have been sex object, athlete, shopper, as good as Barbie wannabe. Sex-object Teresa comes Wet ‘N Wild, Glitter Beach, Sun Jewel, as good as Tropical Splash versions where she is costumed in a swimsuit (a swim suit in a "tropical" version). Sex-object Teresa additionally comes in hostess forms – Lights & Lace (where she has a "music video look"), Rappin’ Rockin’, Hollywood Hair, as good as Dance Moves Teresas. Athletically prone Teresas embody All Stars Teresa in a tennis outfit, Rollerblade Teresa, as good as Camp Teresa who comes with both a swim suit as good as cutoff shorts. Baywatch Teresa combines these characterizations; she comes with a swimsuit as good as a sweatsuit. Barbie wannabes between Teresa dolls embody United Colors of Benetton Shopping Teresa who parallels selling Barbies marketed to a single side by FAO Schwarz as good as Bloomingdale’s; also, Party Time Teresa as good as Sunflower Teresa, who have been approach counterparts of Party Time Barbie as good as Sunflower Barbie.
Among a Teresas a idealisation Barbie wannabe competence be Spots ‘N Dots Teresa. The approach reflection of Spots ‘N Dots Barbie, this Teresa is marketed "wearing Barbie doll’s dress," as Rana (1996) points out. (The dresses have been not identical, by contrast, upon a Sunflower as good as Party Time Barbies as good as Teresas, yet they have been scarcely so.) Moreover, this Teresa’s package shows her upon foot what Rana takes to be Barbie’s dog, that is, a same tiny Dalmatian marketed with Spots ‘N Dots Barbie.
Compared with Barbie, Teresa wears usually a couple of colors. Augustyniak’s descriptions prove that one-third of a twenty-one Teresas come ready to go in blue, purple, or violet. About one-quarter of them have hair described as alternative than black, dim brown, or brunette – "hair with red highlights," "lighter auburn brownish-red hair," "two-tone sugar hair," "sandy blond hair," as good as "dark red hair." At slightest 3 of a dolls have immature eyes; during slightest a single has blue eyes. This latter doll – a United Colors of Benetton Shopping Teresa – is, says Augustyniak, "considered to be a many pleasing Teresa doll ever…She has wavy brownish-red hair, BLUE eyes, red lips as good as eyeshadow all extended by her pleasing light skin tone" (1996b:41, importance added) Thus, Mattel exaggerates a farrago of earthy facilities between Hispanic American women whilst additionally whitening Teresa. More mostly than would be approaching inside of a tangible Latina population, Teresa has alternative than brownish-red or black eyes as good as alternative than black or dim brownish-red hair. In these secular respects she is additionally a Barbie wannabe.
Like many alternative of Mattel’s "racial" as good as "ethnic" dolls, Teresa mostly perpetuates unduly slight ideas or even stereotypes. All American Teresa, for instance, wears what Augustyniak describes as "flag-decorated bib jean overalls" with a shirt as good as a "peach bandana," a skirt musical of images of Hispanic Americans as rural workers (migrant or not). Needless to say, a single negotiates a ethereal march when production images of groupings alternative than EuroAmericans. On a the single side, a single can revoke them to opposite Others who skirt admirably sufficient to mount out as good as demeanour foreign; upon a alternative side, a single can revoke them to EuroAmerican wannabes who demeanour as digested in to middle-American enlightenment as many Americans instruct they were. Yet when a house similar to Mattel issues mixed Teresas or black Barbies or general Barbies, it has copiousness of opportunities to figure a dolls to non-Caucasian facilities (where appropriate) as good as to skirt them so as to simulate a different cultures they represent. As Ann duCille (1996) points out in "Dyes as good as Dolls," it need not spin out usually "dye-dipped versions of classic white American beauty."
Mattel did not, however, give Teresa her own conduct distinctive nature until 1992, as good as a United Colors of Benetton Shopping Teresa released that year still had a strange mold, that was decidedly Caucasian. More generally, many of a "ethnic" Barbies have been light-skinned, as good as a small of a "black" as good as "Hispanic" dolls have skin tones hardly discernible from a single another. At a Philadelphia Barbie show, for instance, we listened a white doll play revelation a white customer, "Yes, it is a black Barbie." The play went upon to set a doll to a single side an one more chronicle as good as said, "See how this one’s skin is lighter than a black one." The lighter-skinned doll was Hispanic. Neither it nor a "black" doll, however, had many skin "color."
…SO, as we can see Teresa is utterly an engaging character. Having grown up surrounded by Dutch blondes, we am all prone to a dim haired girls, as good as as a result my evident seductiveness in Teresa. Her ethnicity has fluctuated over a years, as good as this stream Top Model Teresa with her jet black hair struck me as being of Persian/Iranian origin. Hence, we have rebranded her as a many moving as good as determined "Modern Iranian Postdoctoral Eco Scientist NGO Delegate Top Model Bahar-bie". Now that’s something to demeanour up to! She’ll regularly be a Teresa doll, yet we chose to name her Bahar for limit impact.
I’ve kept a Top Model nomination since she unequivocally is utterly a poser, as good as she takes after Nazanin Afshin-Jam. As for her outfit, she is sporting a poetic mutual black as good as white outfit, with strange sunglasses, pants, boots, socks, as good as top. She is additionally wearing an one more white turtleneck sweater that modestly hides her neckline (while divulgence a immeasurable swath of midriff; she’s a model, after all). And surmount of it all, she has Dr. Ken’s healing lab coat, as good as she wears it with such style! (stemming from a postdoctoral/eco scientist reference).
Enjoy!
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