Made to Play House: Dolls and the Commercialization of American Girlhood, 1830-1930
New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 1993. Hardbound. Plum cloth with silver lettering on boards, pictorial DJ, [xiii] 233 pp, VG+, a crisp copy, fresh pages. Item #126157
ISBN: 9780300050721
Synopsis: As an illustrated social history of the American doll industry this book describes how dolls and doll play changed over time from Gilded Age fashion dolls which inculcated formal social rituals, to the realistic baby dolls of the 1920s fostering girls' maternal impulses.
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