February 17, 2006

Favorite Class

The Sociology of Sexuality

Christine L. Williams, a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and author of Inside Toyland: Working, Shopping, and Social Inequality (University of California Press, 2006):

I devote two weeks of this class to Barbie, a perfect focus for discussing images of sexuality in popular culture. When introduced in this country in 1959, Barbie inspired outrage among mothers who were appalled by the doll's blatant sexuality (previously only

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