Powerplay

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In an increasingly global media culture, toys are both consumer products and playthings, revealing a complex relation between capitalist economics on the one hand and child psychology on the other. Dan Fleming's provocative and wide-ranging analysis challenges accepted orthodoxies on the gendered and cultural meanings of toys. He argues that today's toys have the suppressed capacity to escape the very stereotypes of gender and power which they apparently produce.

subjects: Child development,  History,  Popular culture,  Psychological aspects,  Psychological aspects of Toys,  Social aspects,  Social aspects of Toys,  Toys,  Kind,  Kinderen,  Entwicklung,  Sociale aspecten,  Massenkultur,  Speelgoed,  Spielzeug,  Culturele aspecten,  Toys--social aspects,  Toys--social aspects--united states,  Toys--psychological aspects,  Toys--united states,  Child development--united states,  Popular culture--united states,  Hq784.t68 f62 1996,  155.4/18