Playing with Fire: Marketing Youth Toy and Working Firearms as Social Problem and Social Panacea
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Description
This book offers rich critical perspectives on the marketing of a variety of toys, brands, and product categories. Topics include marketing undertaken by specific children's toy brands such as American Girl, Barbie, Disney, GoldieBlox, Fisher-Price, and LEGO, and marketing trends characterizing broader toy categories such as on-trend grotesque toys; toy firearms; minimalist toys; toyetics; toys meant to offer diverse representation; STEM toys; and unboxing videos. Toy marketing warrants a sustained scholarly critique because of toys' cultural significance and their roles in children's lives, as well as the industry's economic importance. Discourses surrounding toys—including who certain toys are meant for and what various toys and brands can signify about their owners' identities—have implications for our understandings of adults' expectations of children and of broader societal norms into which children are being socialized.
Includes the chapter, "Playing with Fire: Marketing Youth Toy and Working Firearms as Social Problem and Social Panacea" by Maurer Professor Jody Madeira.
ISBN
9783030628802 (hb.), 9783030628819 (ebook)
Publication Date
2021
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
City
Cham, Switzerland
Keywords
Toys-Marketing-Social aspects, Guns, Firearms, Toy Guns
Disciplines
Consumer Protection Law | Juvenile Law | Law | Law and Society
Recommended Citation
Madeira, Jody L., "Playing with Fire: Marketing Youth Toy and Working Firearms as Social Problem and Social Panacea" (2021). Books & Book Chapters by Maurer Faculty. 298.
https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/facbooks/298
Comments
Rebecca C. Hains and Nancy A. Jennings. The Marketing of Children's Toys : Critical Perspectives on Children's Consumer Culture. Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
Complete bibliographic details available in IUCAT.
Paper and electronic copies available in the Jerome Hall Law Library, HD 9993.T692 M37 2021