The Barbie Chronicles A Living Doll Turns Forty

A THOROUGHLY GROWN-UP LOOK AT A TWENTIETH-CENTURY MUSE OF OUTSTANDING PROPORTIONSTo some she's a collectible, to others she's trash. InThe Barbie Chronicles,twenty-three writers join together to scrutinize Barbie's forty years of hateful, lovely disastrous, glorious influence on us all. No other tiny shoulders have ever, had to carry the weight of such affection and derision and no other book has ever paid this notorious little place of plastic her due. Whether you adore her or abhor her,The Barbie Chronicleswill have you looking at her in ways you never imagined.

Yona Zeldis McDonough's articles and fiction have appeared in many national magazines and literary reviews. She is also the author of several children's books, including Anne Frank and Sisters in Strength: American Women Who Made a Difference. She live in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband and two children.