Not “berry nice”: Marketing Strawberry Shortcake to Girls in the ’80s
By Natalie Coulter “The girl is “understood” purely in market terms, not as a citizen with collective needs and desires, not a complex heterogenous category with diverse experiences of girlhood based on class, race, ethnicity, sexuality, ability, etc. But instead as a consumer, assumed to be a white, middle class, able bodied, heterosexual girl, whose …
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