The newest American Girl hails from a bygone era, an ancient decade few will remember — the 1980s. Courtney Moore, the latest "historical character," from the beloved children's toy brand may ...

Disney Promises Angry Consumers Princess Leia ‘Star Wars’ Toys for Girls Are Coming. Thanks to #HashtagActivism, the iconic character George Lucas introduced audiences to in 1977 might finally ...

A thought-provoking "then and now" photo featuring the all-grown-up Rachel Giordano, a 37-year-old practicing naturopathic doctor, shows how toy marketing has changed for the worse. Image Credit ...

For decades, toy makers believed the industry gospel: Boys want to build things; girls want to play princess. But now, female chief executives are leading huge corporations, including Yahoo Inc ...

American Girl announced on Wednesday that Cinderella, Tiana and Ariel are the newest toys to be added to the brand's American Girl Disney Princess Collector Doll series. The items are available ...

Princess Leia will now appear in toy lines from Disney after fans found out — and objected to — the fact that their stores wouldn’t carry any Leia items. Related story Shoppers Say This $19 ...

Disney, which had a long history of producing animated movies considered family entertainment, saw how girls reacted to Princess Ariel in 1989's Little Mermaid, according to Hains.

But in fact, the princess role that’s ubiquitous in girls’ toys today was exceedingly rare prior to the 1990s—and the marketing of toys is more gendered now than even 50 years ago, when ...

But parents do have an important role to play in a culture that makes princess culture all but unavoidable for little girls. Coyne has spoken with her daughter about the way one princess, Merida ...