Life in Plastic: Exploring Barbie’s Enduring Popularity

Photo courtesy of Warner Bros. Article by Alexis Nikolia Buncich. Worth – July 18, 2023.

In 1959, mother and co-founder of Mattel toy manufacturer, Ruth Handler, created a doll that would redefine play for generations of children to come: an unrealistically proportioned, outrageously beautiful, impossibly accomplished woman who would come to be known by the mononym Barbie. Handler’s family was closely tied in with […]

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