{"product_id":"plastics-republic-volume-260-9781771833684","title":"Plastic's Republic: Volume 260","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2019 Barbie turns 60. Never only a toy, she defines the stellar. In \u003ci\u003ePlastic's Republic\u003c\/i\u003e, Giovanna Riccio delves into Barbie's impact on female beauty highlighting how plasticity in body and persona have allowed the doll to remain top-diva. Other poems bring to life, Mattel's movers-n-shakers who created Barbie to be their in-house money maker. Riccio's Plastications lyrics illustrate how Barbie's mouldable nature lets Mattel position their high achiever as ever-relevant, arguably, by exploiting social trends, political movements and historical events. In the Human Barbies section, Barbie becomes plastic surgery's prophet, spawning \"plastic-positive\" people who see their bodies as raw material suitable for actual and virtual surgical \"doctoring.\" Riccio's witty, inimitable poems portray Barbie as a complex, contradictory global celebrity, but also explore the philosophical, feminist and body-image issues that this plastic goddess engenders. In the finale, the poems naturally segue to silicone sex dolls and a plastic-smothered ocean.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Guernica Editions\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781771833684\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.30d","brand":"Giovanna Riccio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52491387109557,"sku":"9781771833684","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_34df94f8-c488-4378-b2ea-57579d853664.jpg?v=1777996068","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/plastics-republic-volume-260-9781771833684","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}