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Who Did What Now

71 - Barbie - The Evolution of an Icon

Who Did What Now

Katie Charlwood

Feminist, History

4.6759 Ratings

🗓️ 17 July 2023

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

In 1959, when Barbie was first introduced to the world, no-one could have expected that this little doll (of what some might call naughty origins) would become the most recognisable toy in the world or spearheading a toy company in her pink plastic heels. Going beyond the dreamhouse, we delve into the real world history of the icon of the pink aisle.


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0:00.0

You're listening to an Airwave Media podcast.

0:11.0

Music Hi everybody and welcome to Hood at What Now, the History Podcast that's not your history class.

0:30.1

With me, your host, Katie Charlwood, History Harlet and Reader of Books.

0:34.8

So there are a couple more listeners than there were last week. Hi and welcome and

0:40.3

this is your disclaimer. It's always best just to be clear right off the bat. So here on this

0:46.8

show, my podcast, I like to try and talk to you the way I would talk to a friend or or at the very least, someone I do not despise.

0:57.7

And as such, I'm going to use language that I use typically.

1:01.0

Some have called it colourful, some have called it despicable and will make sailors blush.

1:07.7

But if, you know, general curse words do not ruffle your feathers, welcome.

1:14.8

I'm glad to have you here at the Guild of Historical Descent.

1:19.4

Oh, I have been upsetting people left, right and centre this week.

1:23.6

So the first thing comes from the British East India Company video, right? Because I do like a

1:28.6

companion video to go along with last week's episode. And I gave like a really like condensed

1:34.8

version trying to keep it within 90 seconds because that's the limit for Instagram and I try

1:39.1

not to make TikTok to go much over it. But yeah, it's very short, very small. And, you know, there's always people

1:45.7

going like, oh, why didn't you talk about this, or you missed out this, you missed out the

1:48.7

opium wars or what they did to China? I was like, I know, I know, but again, the finite amount

1:54.6

of time, which is fine, like I understand and I'll discuss things later on, you know, when I have

1:59.6

time or it's relevant or whatever.

2:01.9

And I had that video. But because I had already put a video up previously about the British

2:09.1

Museums Act, which is effectively the UK made it illegal for the British Museum to give back, to repatriate the stuff that looted from other

2:21.1

countries. Like it made it illegal. Like there's um like certain rules like it has to be either a duplicate

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