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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 real genius behind Barbie's success wasn't the $150 million marketing budget.
Prior to the film's launch, Mattel (owner of Barbie) pushed their licensing agreements to 100+ brands.
Its why they felt *everywhere*
Brands that collaborated include:
- AirBnB (rent Ken's dream… Show more
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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.
Margaret Atwood • The Testaments: The Sequel to The Handmaid’s Tale
Reconceptualized in this way, “home” is untethered from land, family, and lineage. It is siphoned off from the liberal fetish of homeownership — that quintessential image, derived from a short-lived American postwar prosperity, of a picket-fenced house with parents, kids, car, dog. Of course, the feeling of home is not a substitute for actual shelt... See more
Hyejoo Lee • Inside Voice - Real Life
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We have been trained to view our houses and apartments as private refuges, but they must also be seen for what they are: job sites where millions of dollars of the global economy are directly exchanged.
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
We have been trained to view our houses and apartments as private refuges, but they must also be seen for what they are: job sites where millions of dollars of the global economy are directly exchanged.
Angela Garbes • Essential Labor: Mothering as Social Change
...dramatically rethinking what homeownership can look like and most likely divorcing the concepts of house as residence and house as savings account.
% Derisible • Theses for 2020
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the concept of home has evolved into something more transient and intangible.
Eloise Hendy • Home is where the heart is, according to young people
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