Imaginative fulfilment with Barbie as a toy need not rely on parents investing in an entire Barbie world of branded objects. (Shutterstock) October 4, 2023 Yes, the original Barbie is a stereotype — but children also create their own ‘Barbie worlds’ Ozlem Cankaya, MacEwan University Children can transform ordinary items into extraordinary play scenes with Barbie and Barbie-like dolls.
Girton College, University of Cambridge October 1, 2019 Lady Hale’s spider shows key to women’s power dressing is in the accessories Ashley Morgan, Cardiff Metropolitan University The president of the UK’s supreme court delivered a hugely newsworthy judgment, but attention focused on her brooch.
Whether fashionable or functional, the handbag – and what it contains – is intensely personal. The Chanel 2.55, Wikimedia Commons June 19, 2014 The story of … the handbag Karen de Perthuis, UNSW Sydney Under attack from a flock of killer crows, Tippi Hedren in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1963 thriller The Birds, pauses to collect her handbag. It’s an instinctive gesture that many women would recognise. For a…