Marge Piercy's reputation as an important fiction writer began with the appearance of her first published novel, Going Down Fast, in 1969. Especially with Gone to Soldiers (1987) and City of Darkness, City of Light (1996), her genius for transforming his...

Marge Piercy epitomizes a feminist maxim: "The personal is political." In the essay "Mirror Images" (1980) Piercy writes, "My poetry appears to me at once more personal and universal than my fiction. My poetry is of a continuity with itself and with the...

In case you were not aware, her full name is Barbie Millicent Roberts and she is from Willows, Wis., and went to Willows High School. To millions of doll lovers around the world she is known as "Barbie." An 11-year-old Miamisburg girl...

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Toy maker Mattel Inc. went to court Tuesday to declare that the name of its clean-cut Barbie dolls doesn't belong on a model's pornographic Web site.In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, Mattel said the Web site for an adult entertainer named...

More than 700 toy factories in booming southern China have been banned from exporting what they produce as part of a crackdown on shoddy products, the government said Thursday.The four-month-long crackdown was triggered by widespread reports of dangerous or faulty Chinese exports, including toys tainted...