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Summary of Our Barbie's, Ourselves

In "Our Barbie's, Ourselves" Emily Prager discover that Barbie was created by a man; inventor and designer Jack Ryan (para1). Emily Prager acknowledges that Barbie appeared about the same time during the feminist movement when women fought equality and small breast were king. Prager examines three different reasons why Barbie's anatomy is the way it is. First, she argues that there are millions of women who are subliminally sure that a thirty-nine inch bust and a twenty inch waist are the epitome of lovability, which attributes to the popularity of breast implant surgery (para3). Second, she questions if Mr. Ryan designed Barbie as a weapon? (para5). Third, she confirms that Barbie lacked certain softness, something indescribably masculine behind the breast and high heeled feet......

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