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finding ourselves in the Pleasant Company universe
List of abbreviations and American Girl timeline -- Introduction: the making of an American Girl universe / Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith -- Part 1: Consuming American Girl -- Breeches, silks, and flowered hats: aspirational clothing, sartorial labor, and Mattel's American Girl brand / Abigail C. Fine -- "Eating breakfast like it's 1774": American Girl cookbooks, gender, and identity-making through food history / KC Hysmith and Esther Martin -- Places, parties, and purchases: creativity and/against consumerism in the American Girl experience / Juliette Holder -- Part 2: Who gets to be an American Girl? -- Where is my disability community? A comparative close reading of children's historical fiction / Marissa J. Spear -- How the Irish (doll) became white: the Nellie O'Malley AG story arc / Mary M. Burke -- Belonging and indigeneity in the American Girl universe / Sheena Roetman-Wynn -- Ivy Ling, Corinne Tan, and Chinese American misrepresentation in American Girl / Mackenzie Kwok -- Caught between "Jewish" and "American": Rebecca Rubin and the Americanization of the Jewish immigrant experience / Samantha Pickette -- Part 3: American Girl teaches a lesson -- "Nothing but each other and hope": Addy and the Black feminist tradition / Cary Tide -- Teaching girl(')s history: American girls, curricular standards, and historians / Tara Strauch -- As American (Girl) as Girl Scout cookies / Janine B. Napierkowski -- The care and keeping of me: a moment, a year, a book, and returning home to our changing bodies, again and again / Hannah Matthews -- "Selfish or annoying": etiquette, gender, and race in "Oops! The manners guide for girls" / Mary Berman -- Part 4: Making American Girl our own -- "Maybe I could be part of the story too: making meaning and understanding American Jewish identity through American Girl / Rebekkah Rubin -- Interpreting, imagining, and inventing queer pasts and futures through American Girl / Laura Traister -- An inteview with the creators of the "Hellicity Merriman" meme account / Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler -- Conclusion: American Girls forever / Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith -- Acknowledgments -- About the contributors -- Index.
edited by Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2025