Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
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3 March 1959: Ruth Handler put together at her kitchen...
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3 March 1959
Ruth Handler
put together at her kitchen table the prototype Barbie doll, which was unveiled shortly afterwards by Mattel
at this year's American International Toy Fair: a doll with a stylized female body, glamorous in...