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Can I read The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique) on EtoBox?

The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique) by Karen Tracy; James P. Mcdaniel; Bruce E. Gronbeck is a language available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique) about?

Essays in the The Prettier Doll focus on the same local controversy: in 2001,a third-grade girl in Colorado submitted an experiment to the school science fair. She asked 30 adults and 30 fifth-graders which of two Barbie dolls was prettier. One doll was black, the other white, and each wore a different colored dress. All of the adults picked the Barbie in the purple dress, while nearly all of the fifth graders picked the white Barbie. When the student’s experiment was banned an uproar resulted t

Who reads The Prettier Doll: Rhetoric, Discourse, and Ordinary Democracy (Rhetoric, Culture, and Social Critique)?

It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Karen Tracy; James P. Mcdaniel; Bruce E. Gronbeck
Publisher
The University of Alabama Press
Published
2007
Language
EN
ISBN
9780817354398
Category
language
Subjects
Political Science, Science, Language Learning
Updated
2026-03-25