An American Girl anthology : finding ourselves in the Pleasant Company universe /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Jackson, USA :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2025]
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| Series: | Cultures of childhood.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- 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.