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128 "I've seen some very handsome men in business": Brooks, op. cit.
129 Newsweek's 1988 report on the demise of the supermom. Good Housekeeping's "New Traditionalist" ad campaign: See Faludi, op. cit., p. 90.
129 Lacroix quoted on bubble skirts ("for women who like to "dress up like little girls' "): Ibid., p. 169.
130 "Bye-bye . . . little bow tie": Mademoiselle, quoted bv Faludi, ibid., p. 177.
131 "When I as a futurist share our assumptions . . .": Telephone interview with Laurel Cutler, September 11, 1993.
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134 Circulation figures for Barbie novels: See Random House internal memos, 1962. (Random House archive, Columbia University Library.)
136 'The eommodifieation of one's look became the basis of success": Winni Breines. Young, White and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon Press, 1992), p. 105.
136 Being seen was "one of the main attractions of attending school": Ibid.
138 Paula Foxx slips into the Roberts "family circle as naturally . . . as any ordinary woman might have done": Bette Lou Maybee. Barbie's Fashion Success (New York, Random House, 1962), p. 21.
138 "what a pretty and talented daughter I have": Ibid., p. 27.
139 Barbie afflicted with "rare streaks of just being ornery": Ibid., p. 88.
140 "There are more important things to dream about than being rich": Ibid., p. 6.
140 Nancy Drew is "within reach. . . . She is pretty but not beautiful": Arthur Prager, Rascals at Large, or the Clue in the Old Nostalgia (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday and Company, Inc., 1971) p. 77.
141 Barbie afflicted by "emotions so strange that she could not understand them herself": Cynthia Lawrence, "The Size 10 Dress," Here's Barbie (New York: Random House, 1962), p. 94.
141 Barbie and Bertha hold hands in a "warm spotlight": Ibid., p. 100.
141 "A girl lives in some out-of-the-way town for nineteen years . . ." Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (New York: Bantam Books, 1972), p. 2.
142 "calm, steady" Ken Carson: Cynthia Lawrence, Barbie's New York Summer (New York: Random House, 1962), p. 21.
142 Genitals resembling "turkey neck and turkev gizzards": Plath, op. cit., p. 55.
142 Constantin's name as "full of S's and K's": Ibid., p. 41.
142 "Why did 1 attract these weird old women?": Ibid., p. 180.
142 Barbie wants "a whole New York wardrobe, free": Lawrence, Barbie's New York Summer, p. 5.
143 Esther Greenwood's mother "begging [her] with a sorrowful face . . .": Plath, op. cit., p. 166.
143 "I hate her": Ibid., p. 166.
143 "A girl . . . tries to resolve her ambivalent dependence . . .'": Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering: Psychoanalysis and the Sociology of Gender (Berkeley, Calif: University of California Press, 1979), p. 137.
144 "I felt like a piece of merchandise": Lawrence, Barbie's New York Summer, p. 62.
144 "A sudden gust of wind caught [Barbie's] full skirt . . .": Ibid., p. 107.
144 "It was probably Clara's British background . . .": Bette Lou Maybee, Barbie's Hawaiian Holiday (New York: Random House, 1962), p. 39.
145 "I was born in the wrong part of the century . . .": Telephone interview with Bette Lou Maybee, May 21, 1993. (All Maybee quotations are from this interview.)
145 Rose Marie Reid: "a swimsuit wiz-ardess . . .": Brown, op. cit., p. 94.
146 Bernard Gottlieb to Robert Bernstein: Letter dated August 31, 1965. (Random House archive, Columbia University.)
146 Sales of the later Barbie books recorded in internal Random House raemos and royalty statements. (Random House archive, Columbia University.)
147 "With the donkey's noisesome voice . . .": Eleanor Woolvin, Barbie and the Ghost Town Mystery (New York: Random House, 1965). p. 50.
148 Thanks to former Barbie magazine editor Karen Tina Harrison for providing me with a copy of the unreleased Barbie magazine (Barbie, Christmas. 1984).
148 "Barbie Goes Milano," House &Garden, June 1986.
148 Sottsass intended the style as "an ironic gesture": Stephen Bailey, Taste:The Secret Meaning of Things