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55 Midge "is thrilled with Barbie's career . . .": Carson/Roberts, Midge's debut ad—videotape provided by Mattel.
56 "Basically, Tammy was a baby doll . . .": Interviews with Joe Blitman, Los Angeles, July 3 and July 6, 1992. (All Blitman quotations are from these interviews.)
57 The "togetherness" movement . . . in which a woman "exists only for . . . her husband and children": Friedan, op. cit., p. 47.
57 Marx alleged Mattel copied the "form, posture, facial expression . . ." of the Bild Lilli doll: Louis Marx and Co., Inc., and Greiner & Hausser G.m.b.H. v. Mattel, Incorporated, Civil Action No. 341-61-WB, filed March 24, 1961, in the U.S. District Court, Southern District of California Central Division. (RG 21 Records of the District Court of the U.S. for the Southern District of California, Central Division 1938-1961, Civil Case Files, Folder 341-61, Box #2276.) Quotation from reply to defendant's counterclaims in second amended answer; and plaintiffs' counterclaim against defendant, September 15, 1961, p. 10.
59 Mattel counters by alleging Marx has conspired with Germans to compete unfairly by "marketing an inferior doll in the United States of confusingly similar appearance to" Barbie: Marx v. Mattel, second amended answer to complaint and counterclaim and jury demand, September 11, 1961, p. 10.
59 Mattel introduced wooden dolls from the "collection of Miss Ruth Ellison . . .": Marx v. Mattel. Defendant's notice under title 35, section 282, p. 2. (News that the dolls were discovered by Jack Ryan's brother was provided in the Jack Ryan interview, op. cit.)
59 Judge Leon Yankwich dismissed claims "with prejudice as to all causes of action . . .": Marx v. Mattel, Decision filed March 4, 1963.
60 "I Am . . . Not a Toy . . .": Robin Morgan at the Miss America Pageant: See Cohen, op. cit., pp. 151-152.
61 "The typical George Wallace voter and the Bob Dylan fan lived in different worlds": Jim Miller, "The Best of the Summer of '68," 77ie New York Times, July 25. 1993.
63 "a sort of ecstatic vision . . .": Arian and Michael Batterberry, Mirror, Mirror (New York: Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1977), p. 388.
63 "a vision of sexuality freed from the shadow of gender distinctions . . . expand the possibilities.": Ehrenreich et ah, op. cit., p. 35.
CHAPTER FOUR: THE WHITE GODDESS
66 Statistics on breast cancer: Susan Ferraro, "The Anguished Politics of Breast Cancer," The New York Times Magazine, August 15, 1993, p. 58.
67 "We were all raised on a . . . idea of what a sexually successful woman was supposed to look like . . . the official breast" was "Barbie's breast": Katie Davis, Report on Breast Implants, National Public Radio's Morning Edition, April 17, 1992. (Quotation checked against official transcript.)
67 "androgynous vacancy . . .": Susan Sontag, "Notes on Camp," Against Interpretation (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1966), p. 279.
71 "If psycho-analytic theory . . .": Sigmund Freud, "The Uncanny," The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Vol. 17 (London: The Hogarth Press Limited, 1961), pp. 219-256.
71 Transitional objects: See D. W. Winnicott, "The Location of Cultural Experience," The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 48 (1966), pp. 368-372; D. W. Winnicott, "Transitional Objects and Transitional Phenomena," The International Journal of Psychoanalysis, Vol. 34 (1953), pp. 89-97.
72 Transitional objects: Interview with Ellen Handler Spitz, New York City, August 7, 1992.
73 The masses' craving "to bring things 'closer' . . .": Walter Benjamin, "Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction," Illuminations (New York: Schocken Books, 1969), p. 223.
74 Plastic "is the very idea of its infinite transformation . . .": Roland Barthes, Mythologies (New York: Hill and Wang, 1982), p. 97.
74 a "magical substance which consents to be prosaic": Ibid., p. 98.
75 Venuses: See Lawrence Langer, The Importance of Wearing Clothes (Los Angeles: Elysium Growth Press, 1991), p. 99.
76 "crystalline Aphrodite": Kenneth Clark, The Nude (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University