Saved by Keely Adler
Barbie, Her House and the American Dream
Dollhouses are an almost too-literal example of these women’s shrunken ambitions—of how, when you don’t have control over the big decisions shaping your life, you narrow your focus to a world that’s small enough for you to impose your will on it.
Rachel Monroe • Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
the concept of home has evolved into something more transient and intangible.
Eloise Hendy • Home is where the heart is, according to young people
Girlhood is big business. The ones who are best at it literally treat it as an occupation, modeling or taking suitably candid-looking pictures of themselves, recommending clothes and jewelry and books, going viral on TikTok. They’re performing a way of being that looks joyful, effortless, and adorable. It’s a performance that by definition has a sh... See more
consuming the girl
Aunt Lise taught us the basics of interior decorating, though the final choices about the style of our homes would of course be made by our husbands.