Doll Dressing Symposium Reading List

Charles-Roux, Edmonde, et al. Théâtre de La Mode: Fashion Dolls: The Survival of Haute Couture. 2nd. Portland: Palmer/Pletsch Publishing, 2003.

Coleman, Dorothy S., Elizabeth A. Coleman, and Evelyn J. Coleman. The Collector’s Book of Dolls’ Clothes: Costumes in Miniature, 1700-1929. New York: Crown Publishers, 1975.

Dale, Joshua Paul. Irresistible: How Cuteness Wired Our Brains and Conquered the World. London: Profile Books, 2023.

Evans, Caroline. The Mechanical Smile: Modernism and the First Fashion Shows in France and America 1900-1929. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.

Garan, Gina. Blythe Style. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2006.

Hart, Maria Teresa. Doll. New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.

Hill, Colleen. Doll Dressing. New York: Rizzoli Electa Publications, 2026.

King, Kenneth D. Doll Couture: Red Carpet Edition. Edwardsville: Broad Book Press, 2025.

Koné, Christophe. Uncanny Creatures: Doll Thinking in Modern German Culture. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2024.

Lord, M. G. Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll. 30th anniversary edition. New York: Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2024.

Monden, Masafumi. Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015.

Munro, Jane, ed. Silent Partners: Artist and Mannequin from Function to Fetish. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014.

Peers, Juliette. The Fashion Doll: From Bébé Jumeau to Barbie. Oxford: Berg, 2004.

Rand, Erica. Barbie’s Queer Accessories. Durham: Duke University Press, 1995.

Stewart, Susan. On Longing: Narratives of the Miniature, the Gigantic, the Souvenir, the Collection. Durham: Duke University Press, 1994.

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