In Pleasant Company: “Girl Dolls”
American women of a certain vintage can be sorted into haves and have-nots based on possession of a single commodity: an American Girl doll. Just whisper the name Samantha Parkington to an elder millennial and you’ll see her disassociate, withdrawing into happy childhood memories, returning to her earliest feelings of aggravated envy, or a destabilizing […] The full version of the article In Pleasant Company: “…