Deconstructing Dolls

Deconstructing DollsIn recent decades, emerging scholarship in the field of girlhood studies has led to a particular interest in dolls as sources of documentary evidence. Deconstructing Dolls pushes the boundaries of doll studies by expanding the definition of dolls, ages of doll players, sites of play, research methods, and application of theory. By utilizing a variety of new approaches, this collected volume seeks to understand the historical and contemporary

the Copts were strongly opposed by the Melkite Church

boat jockeys

in the northeastern Hula Valley in northern Israel

including Down syndrome children

illuminates the process of writing a persuasive request for funding from start to finish

including the poet Jane Colman Turell

and measurements of resources

this book reviews how one of Italy's greatest directors mined literary ore for cinematic inspiration

" In effect

and in the present volume he examines its legacy and relevancy for the twenty-first century

Hessell makes new connections by setting aside European-derived genre barriers to bring literary studies to bear on the study of diplomacy and scholarship from diplomatic history and Indigenous studies to bear on literary criticism

How can fairness be reconciled with administrative efficacy