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173 Skin color and social hierarchy within the African-American community: See Midge Wilson, Kathy Russell, and Ronald Hall, The Color Complex: The Politics of Skin Color Among African Americans (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992), pp. 67-68.
174 There were "a lot of things that when I look at now . . .": Interview with Kitty Black Perkins, El Segundo, California, September 21, 1992. (All Black Perkins quotations are from this interview.)
176 "I'm an African American": Telephone interview with Jacob Miles, January 12, 1994. (All Miles quotations are from this interview.)
178 "You'd be surprised how many white people . . .": Interview with Susan Howard, New York City, November 16, 1992.
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180 "I needed [the characters] . . .": Interview with Jill Ciment, New York City, September 30, 1992. (All Ciment quotations are from this interview.)
182 "nothing is as crass and vulgar . . .": Bayley, op. cit., p. 142.
183 "You'll notice prole women smile more . . .": Paul Fussell, Class (New York: Summit Books, 1983), p. 51.
184 "working class women . . . are less aware . . .": Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1984), p. 206.
185 For an update on class-coding in dress and grooming: Joan Kron, "Secret Beauty Codes," Allure, August 1992, pp. 54-57.
186 "Nothing is too ugly . . .": Fussell, op. cit., p. x.
187 "proper tea ceremony": Pleasant Company Summer Catalogue, Summer 1992, p.4.
187 "Miss Crampton's Academy . . .": Ibid, p. 20.
187 Eleven million sold: American Girls' ad, Publishers Weekly, September 27, 1993.
188 "the poor and the relatively unschooled" favor brilliant colors: Packard, op. cit., p. 113.
188 "Scientific observation shows . . .": Bourdieu, op. cit., p. 10.
189 "We're fulfilling what we always said . . .": Interview with Meryl Friedman, El Segundo, California, July 15, 1992. (All Friedman quotations are from this interview.)
190 "Whatever the fashion, the California version . . .": Alison Lurie, The Language of Clothes (New York: Random House, 1981), p. 112.
190 "the opposition between the classical sports and the Californian sports . . .": Bourdieu, op. cit., p. 220.
191 "The prole bathroom . . .": Fussell, op. cit., p. 95.
192 'The first time I saw it happen . . .": Reyner Banham, Los Angeles: The Architecture of Four Ecologies (New York: Harper & Row, 1971), p. 213.
193 "the dream of a good life . . .": Ibid., p. 238.
193 "All the elegant accesories . . .": Mattel 1964 Toy Catalogue (Hawthorne, Calif: Mattel Toys, 1964), p. 28.
194 "Well, there's a brick wall . . .": Interview with Aaron Betsky, Los Angeles. July 15, 1992. (All Betsky quotations are from this interview.)
194 Details of the Deluxe Reading Corporation's Dream Kitchen: See Mark Ouellette, "Dream Kitchen," Barbie Bazaar, May/June 1993, pp. 15-17.
195 "global power brand": Interview with Astrid Autolitano, El Segundo, California, April 27, 1993. (All Autolitano quotations are from this interview.)
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200 "Woman with the Golden Hair": Robert Bly, Iron John (New York: Vintage Books, 1992), p. 141.
200 "Millions of American men . . .": Ibid., p. 136.
202 Readers of Leg Show . . . "tend to be white-collar, educated people . . .": Interview with Dian Hanson, New York City, January 21, 1993. (All Hanson quotations are from this interview.)
204 Matrisexuality of children: See Chodorow, op. cit., p. 96.
207 "1 rubbed . . .": Madonna quoted by Mark Bego in Blond Ambition (New York: Harmony Books, 1992), p. 15.
207 "If you look at any . . .": Sharon Stone quoted by Kevin Sessums in "Stone Goddess," Vanity Fair, April 1993, p. 207.
208 Vampiric female gaze: Telephone interview with Camille Paglia, October 28, 1992.
208 Men "create folk legends . . .": Chodorow, op. cit., p. 183.
208 A nude should arouse "some vestige of erotic feeling": Clark, op. cit., p. 8.
209 Erotization of medieval bellies in medieval times, other female body parts at other times: Anne Hollander,