This entry was originally going to be in two parts, with the second part being a breakdown of my complaints about Jenni Quilter's Hatching: Experiments in Motherhood and Technology, which I also found gender essentialist and not queer enough (weirdly, since Quilter herself is queer), but I got my complaints about that out in a combination of phone calls with a friend and the book club discussion about it, which just leaves Barbie.
( Complaints and spoilers. )
( Complaints and spoilers. )