Barbification
English
editNoun
editBarbification (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of Barbiefication
- 1999, Philip Melling, “Race and Promiscuity: Millennial Ministry and the Legacy of Ham”, in Fundamentalism in America: Millennialism, Identity and Militant Religion, Chicago, Ill.: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers; Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, →ISBN, footnote 1, page 74:
- Where Alexander Lebed identifies the enemy of Russian culture as the soap opera, Estonia's Jaan Kaplinski attributes the erosion of Baltic culture to ‘Barbification’ and cultural imports such as dolls, comic strips and cable TV […].
- 2022, Linda Rogers et al., “Nurselogs”, in Mother, the Verb, Swan Sister Treasure Book, Altona, Mb.: Friesens, →ISBN, page 67:
- [W]e must now resist anachronistic legislation and the Barbification of young women, the saddest phenomenon being the identical non-identifiable missing photos of girls and women surgically and cosmetically altered to resemble dolls.