Made to Play House

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Made to Play House is written by Miriam Formanek-Brunell and published by JHU Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0801860628 (ISBN 10) and 9780801860621 (ISBN 13).

In Made to Play House, Miriam Formanek-Brunell traces the history of nineteenth- and twentieth-century dolls and explores the origins of the American toy industry's remarkably successful efforts to promote self fulfillment through maternity and materialism. She tells the fascinating story of how inventors, producers, entrepreneurs—many of whom were women—and little girls themselves created dolls which expressed various notions of female identity.