The marketing of children's toys : critical perspectives on children's consumer culture / Rebecca C. Hains, Nancy A. Jennings, editors.
Hains, Rebecca C., 1976- editor.; Jennings, Nancy A., editor.
2021
HD9993.T692 M37 2021
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Title
The marketing of children's toys : critical perspectives on children's consumer culture / Rebecca C. Hains, Nancy A. Jennings, editors.
ISBN
9783030628819 (electronic bk.)
3030628817 (electronic bk.)
3030628809
9783030628802
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62881-9
Published
Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xvii, 304 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-62881-9 doi
Call Number
HD9993.T692 M37 2021
Dewey Decimal Classification
659.1968872
Summary
This book offers rich critical perspectives on the marketing of a variety of toys, brands, and product categories. Topics include marketing undertaken by specific children's toy brands such as American Girl, Barbie, Disney, GoldieBlox, Fisher-Price, and LEGO, and marketing trends characterizing broader toy categories such as on-trend grotesque toys; toy firearms; minimalist toys; toyetics; toys meant to offer diverse representation; STEM toys; and unboxing videos. Toy marketing warrants a sustained scholarly critique because of toys' cultural significance and their roles in children's lives, as well as the industry's economic importance. Discourses surrounding toys--including who certain toys are meant for and what various toys and brands can signify about their owners' identities--have implications for our understandings of adults' expectations of children and of broader societal norms into which children are being socialized.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 19, 2021).
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Hains, Rebecca C., 1976- editor.
Jennings, Nancy A., editor.
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Marketing of children's toys.
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Reclaiming the living room : the play value of grotesque toys
Playing with minimalism : how parents are sold on high-end toys and childhood simplicity
Imported toys in Indonesia : parental consumer literacy, purchasing decisions, and globalization
Unwrapping toy TV : Ryan's world and the toy review genre's impact on children's culture
Toys that train the tots : Fisher-Price's smart toys in the digital age
Commodifying culture : Mattel's and Disney's marketing approaches to "Latinx" toys and media
A toy for thoughtful parents : the rhetorical building blocks of LEGO's reputation
"Smart is the new cool" : project MC² and the marketing of STEM lifestyles to tween girl
Hacking girl power : GoldieBlox play sets and material rhetoric
Toy discourses and gendered roles in "the most gender equal country in the world" : a critical cultural analysis of Norwegian toy catalogues from 2011 to 2018
Unpacking Logan : the construction of masculinity in the American Girl boy doll
The politics of Barbie's curvy new body : marketing Mattel's fashionistas line

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