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"I sometimes think she is a spy on all my actions": Dolls, Girls, and Disciplinary Surveillance in the Nineteenth-Century Doll Tale
- Children's Literature
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 39, 2011
- pp. 33-57
- 10.1353/chl.2011.0010
- Article
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This essay examines the ways in which nineteenth-century doll tales presented dolls as agents of surveillance that threatened to invert the doll-girl power relationship and how these didactic applications began to be challenged towards the end of the century with the girl's assertion of ownership over her doll.