List of Abbreviations and American Girl Timeline Introduction: The Making of an American Girl Universe Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith Part 1: Consuming American Girl Breeches, Silks, and Flowered Hats: Aspirational Clothing, Sartorial Labor, and Mattel?s American Girl Brand Abigail C. Fine ?Eating Breakfast Like It?s 1774?: American Girl Cookbooks, Gender, and Identity-Making through Food History KC Hysmith and Esther Martin Places, Parties, and Purchases: Creativity and/against Consumerism in the American Girl Experience Juliette Holder Part 2: Who Gets to Be an American Girl? Where Is My Disability Community? A Comparative Close Reading of Children?s Historical Fiction Marissa J. Spear How the Irish (Doll) Became White: The Nellie O?Malley AG Story Arc Mary M. Burke Belonging and Indigeneity in the American Girl Universe Sheena Roetman-Wynn Ivy Ling, Corinne Tan, and Chinese American Misrepresentation in American Girl Mackenzie Kwok Caught Between ?Jewish? and ?American?: Rebecca Rubin and the Americanization of the Jewish Immigrant Experience Samantha Pickette Part 3: American Girl Teaches a Lesson ?Nothing but Each Other and Hope?: Addy and the Black Feminist Tradition Cary Tide Teaching Girl(?)s History: American Girls, Curricular Standards, and Historians Tara Strauch As American (Girl) as Girl Scout Cookies Janine B. Napierkowski The Care and Keeping of Me: A Moment, a Year, a Book, and Returning Home to Our Changing Bodies, Again and Again Hannah Matthews ?Selfish or Annoying?: Etiquette, Gender, and Race in Oops! The Manners Guide for Girls Mary Berman Part 4: Making American Girl Our Own ?Maybe I Could Be Part of the Story Too?: Making Meaning and Understanding American Jewish Identity through American Girl Rebekkah Rubin Interpreting, Imagining, and Inventing Queer Pasts and Futures through American Girl Laura Traister An Interview with the Creators of the ?Hellicity Merriman? Meme Account Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler Conclusion: American Girls Forever Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith Acknowledgments About the Contributors Index.