Consider this: Barbie is a space-age recasting of a stone-age fertility totem, symbol of an ancient, enduring matriarchal faith. Why now: The now 64 year-old doll is especially hard to ignore ...

When a doll is more than just doll.True, Barbie, with her cinched-in waist and narrow hips, is hardly a swelling Venus of Willendorf, a type of well-known goddess sculpture made in Europe almost ...

Prima ballerina Misty Copeland is being honored today by with a Barbie doll in her likeness.