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209 Psychological meanings of milk: Packard, op. cit., p. 93.
209 "So long as only the upper parts . . .": Langer, op. cit., p. 44.
210 "stopped off to do a Playboy shoot on the way to cheerleading practice": Halberstam, op. cit., p. 575.
210 Eve's "golden tresses" and their meaning: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV, vs. 305-306.
211 Erotization of female behind: See "The Bottom Line," W, December 7-14, 1992.
212 'The figure was almost like road kill . . ." and other facts about the new erotization of the female derriere, including the angles of primate bottoms in heat: Martha Barnette, "Perfect Endings," Allure, November 1993, pp. 160-163.
212 "taking the basic Ken and Barbie poses . . .": Walter Kirn, "tJbersex: Has Hollywood Lost Sight of the Difference Between Erotic and Aerobic?," Mirabella, September 1992, p. 46.
212 Antics of Mattel engineers: Interview with Derek Gable, Palos Verdes, May I, 1993. (All Gable quotations are from this interview.)
213 "Cults of beauty have been persistently homosexual . . .": Paglia, op. cit., p. 117.
214 "I loved the shiny hair . . .": Interview with the Lady Bunny, New York City, October 22, 1992. (All Lady Bunny quotations are from this interview.)
214 Drag queens on the runway: Patricia Jacobs, "He Is a She!," New York Post, December 21, 1992.
215 "Growing up in the inner-city . . .": Interview with Vaginal Davis, New York City, October 6, 1992.
215 Core gender identity: See Robert Stoller, "Primary Femininity," Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, Vol. 24, Supplement on Female Psychology, 1976, pp. 59-76.
216 "Drag constitutes the mundane way in which genders are appropriated . . .": Butler, op. cit., p. 21.
217 "the secret habits that seem normal enough to us . . .": A. M. Homes, "A Real Doll," in Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole, eds., Mondo Barbie (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993), p. 8.
217 "what it means to be a 'good girl' . . .": Interview with A. M. Homes, New York City, December 1, 1992. (All Homes quotations are from this interview.)
218 The Barbi twins as "truck drivers in drag": Stasi, Vaughan, and Scaduto, op. cit.
218 Playboy cover story on the Barbi Twins: "Seeing Double: The Barbi Twins Are a Couple of Dolls You'll Never Outgrow," Playboy, September 1991, pp. 137-145.
219 "Is this what you call erotic?": "Letters from Our Readers," On Our Backs, May/June 1989, p. 5. (The original "Gals and Dolls" pictorial, On Our Backs, March/April 1989, pp. 32-34. The credit reads: "Photos and Models: Evans, Brill, Smith.")
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222 "doll" as woman, "dolled up" as dressed up. Beauvoir, op. cit., p. 279.
224 "the whole Barbie phenomenon": Interview with "Jan," New York City, October 6, 1992.
226 Barbie at Sierra Tucson: See Alethea Savile, "Safe Haven Among the Sex Addicts," Daily Mail, October 8, 1992.
226 Barbie weight study at University Central Hospital in Helsinki, Finland: "Barbie's Missing Accessory: Food," Tufts University Diet and Nutrition Letter, Vol. 11, No. 11, January 1994, p. 1.
226 'The body of the Ceres . . .": Hollander, op. cit., p. 3.
227 Meredig's eating disorder statistics: See "She's No Barbie, Nor Does She Care to Be," The New York Times August 15, 1991.
227 "Wow! A doll with hips and a waist": People September 2, 1991.
227 "Stranglehold on distribution . . .": Meredig quoted by Lynn Smith in "Not Only Fun, but P.C. Too," Los Angeles Times, October 30, 1992.
227 Compromising material in Meredig's press kit, "Her Doll Is Built Like Real Women," Minneapolis St. Paul Star Tribune, August 19, 1991, p. 7E.
228 The Venus de Milo "legless by design": Hollander, op. cit., p. 214.
229 Plastic playthings lack "the pleasure, the sweetness, the humanity of touch": Barthes, op. cit., p. 54.
229 Parents' "prejudice" against plastic playthings: Brian Sutton-Smith, Toys as Culture (New York: Gardner Press, 1986), p. 11.
230 "Behind the anorexic's caricature . . .": Kaplan, op. cit., p. 457.
231 "While it may be hard