When it comes to teaching their toddlers about sex, they really do do things differently in France

Why not buy a black lesbian action figure for the little girl on your holiday list?

He loves dolls, and in our house toys aren't "for girls" or "for boys." Toy catalogs need to catch up

Why do makers of toys and computer games still practice segregation?

Against the bubblegum sexuality of our pop cultural landscape, there's something refreshingly defiant about Goth

Photographer David Levinthal shoots dolls in poses so erotically charged that the figures seem real.

A working girl pays tribute to her role model.

Perhaps an "Oppenheimer" milkshake is in the works next?

This isn't your mother's Barbie: Welcome to a Web subculture where pixelated gothic Lolitas, preps and weirdos are good wholesome fun.

What do eBay's Meg Whitman and Apple's iBook have in common? Could it be sexist journalism?

October brings Barbie and breast cancer awareness.

Why it’ll take more than a gender-neutral doll to change how boys perceive femininity

After talk of "genocide" and fighting "to the death," Mattel is ruled the legal owner of the rival line.

The white American Girl dolls' fights for freedom were figurative. Addy's fight was literal

The white American Girl dolls' fights for freedom were figurative. Addy's fight was literal