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Much is known about the middle-class Victorian fascination with peering into the homes of the poor; however, in what follows, I examine the doll`s house as an object that inverts the seemingly unidirectional gaze of wealthy voyeurs or reformers. The doll`s house becomes an instrument through which working-class children may gaze into the homes of the upper classes. Although the toy is intended in some contexts to work as a disciplinary mechanism for interpellating children into a specifically classed model of subjectivity, the rich and eclectic cultural history of doll . . .
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