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  1. Playing with Gender: Girls, Dolls, and Adult Ideals in the Roman World.Fanny Dolansky - 2012 - Classical Antiquity 31 (2):256 - +.
    This study examines the socio-cultural significance of dolls as Roman girls' toys. It focuses on a sample of ivory, bone, and cloth dolls, many of which have ornate hairstyles, molded breasts and, in some cases, delineated genitalia. As the only explicitly gendered toys from the Roman world, these constitute unique bodies of evidence for exploring questions of socialization and identity formation, and assessing ancient ideals. Often treated as relatively straightforward objects that prepared girls for futures as wives and mothers, this (...)
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