Barbie's been a lot of things - a model, a nurse, an astronaut, a news editor ... and many other things, but aside from her jobs she's been a feminist icon and a feminist pariah.

So is the new movie rehabbing her often divisive image? We spoke to Maria Teresa Hart, an expert on dolls who's just written a book about doll culture.

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