By Miriam Forman-Brunell, Ph.D University of Missouri, Kansas City http://www.smithsonianeducation.org/idealabs/ap/essays/barbie.htm What can Barbie—the quintessential blond bimbo—tell us about postwar American culture? Inscribed on Barbie are the traditional notions as well as the changing values of a culture that was in the process of dramatic social, cultural, and political transformation. As an artifact of postwar cultural…