Sexy, Career-Minded Barbie Turns 50 (5 Questions for Author & Barbie Expert M.G. Lord)

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Sexy, Career-Minded Barbie Turns 50 (5 Questions for Author & Barbie Expert M.G. Lord)
      

The Barbie doll -- controversial and omnipresent -- celebrates her 50th birthday today.

To discuss the doll's origins and wide-ranging impact, we've interviewed Barbie expert and Britannica contributor M.G. Lord, author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll.

Barbie's curvaceous figure, her career-mindedness, her meaning to feminists, her reception in places like the Muslim world -- all are discussed in the following interview.
         

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