The Barbie doll is a global phenomenon. Since being launched in 1959, over a billion dolls have been sold, and the line continues popular, adapting itself to markets and social values everywhere.As such, the Barbie doll range can be seen as valuable sociological evidence: what does it say about culture and, specifically, about images of what it is to be a woman... or, more accurately, a girl? Are Barbie dolls a form...