Barbie Land as cyberfeminist utopia

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4367151
AutoresRobyn Timothy (0009-0003-5955-8746, York St John University, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume25
Fascículo4
Páginas635-648
Data de publicação2024-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoFeminist Theory (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1464-7001 • E-ISSN: 1741-2773
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/14647001241291462
OpenAlexW4404219956
IdiomaDE
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas19

I explore Barbie (2023) through the lens of cyberfeminism to argue that Barbie Land can be conceptualised as a cyberfeminist utopia. I draw specifically on Donna Haraway's concept of the cyborg, and Sadie Plant's literature, to examine how Stereotypical Barbie herself is produced as a cyborg in the film and how Barbie Land draws parallels to utopian fantasies of cyberspace. Themes of glitching, boundary blurring and transgression are central to this discussion, and I apply these concepts to key moments in the film such as Stereotypical Barbie's existential crisis, her travels between the Real World and Barbie Land and the final scene with Barbie visiting her gynaecologist. By placing the film in conversation with cyberfeminist thinking, I demonstrate how Barbie sits within a tradition of texts that place transgression and subversion at the core of feminist politics

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Dystopia · Environmental ethics · Literature · Political science · Sociology · Utopia · Cinema and Media Studies · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Philosophy · Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology