To the Editor:Re “Barbie Has Never Been a Great Symbol, but She’s an Excellent Mirror” (Opinion guest essay, July 22):Andi Zeisler’s essay was a walk down memory lane.
As a feminist and a professor in a medical school with a young daughter in the 1980s, I was confronted with the dilemma of whether to buy a Barbie doll.
Further, her pink high heels would have left this poor doll exhausted after a full day of conducting medical rounds and seeing patients.
Perhaps this 1980s Dr. Barbie encapsulates the wish “to have it all”: a stereotyped image of ideal female beauty coupled with a traditionally male high-status job.
Judith RichmanChicagoThe writer is professor emerita of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
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Andi Zeisler’s, Barbie ”, Boobie, Barbie, Judith Richman Chicago
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University of Illinois
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Chicago