Radical Play

Recovers a history of American children’s culture in the 1960s and 1970s by showing how dolls, guns, action figures, and other toys galvanized and symbolized new visions of social, racial, and gender justice. Goldberg locates the moment Americans first came to understand the world of toysâ€"from Barbie to G.I. Joeâ€"as much more than child’s play.