Ida was sickly by the time she gave birth to Ruth, so the baby was sent to live with ... Barbara — who would become Barbie’s namesake — Ruth had a new idea. She observed that Barbara and ...
The Barbie doll is one of the most recognizable toys in the world, and it’s all thanks to a woman named Ruth Handler. In 1959, when Handler introduced Barbie, the toy quickly took the world by ...
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Inventing Barbie: Before the Woke Era
Ruth noticed that Barbara and her friends often preferred playing with adult-looking paper dolls rather than baby dolls ...