When Danny Charbel’s daughter first became interested in Barbie, the professional realtor knew what needed to happen. The pair gathered the 5-year old’s newly acquired collection of dolls and then put ...

From a film theory standpoint, a delineator of a postmodern movie is the exhuming of cherished icons from the past, usually reframing them through a cynical lens. Postmoderns do this trenchantly, ...

Dr. Caroline Leaf, PhD, author of Help Your Child Clean Up Their Mental Mess, is a communication pathologist, audiologist, clinical and cognitive neuroscientist specializing in psychneurobiology and ...

Paige Gabriele loved her dolls - once. At age 8, however, the Swarthmore girl has largely abandoned them. Even Barbie gets slim face time, and the single American Girl doll, a gift from her ...

Here come the Bratz! It might have been the summer of Barbie, but the Mattel brand won’t stand alone in its resurgence in pop culture during “the year of the doll,” according to Jasmin Larian Hekmat, ...