Smurf With Broom

Titel

Smurf With Broom

Beskrivning

The smurf with his broom was donated to the project ‘Future memories’ at the National Historical Museum, 2007. The smurfs are currently experiencing a revival with a new 3D-movie, after a rather perishing existence for some decades. The first comic strips with the smurfs were created by Pierre Culliford (Peyo) in 1958, a Belgian artist. During the 1970s the plastic figurines were immensely popular toys. The smurfs’ society has been accused of being socialistic, totalitarian and racist. Be that as it may, it’s also an almost exclusively all-male society where there is just one female around, The Smurfette. Form my own experience, the Smurfette figurines – there were several versions of her – tended to be less balanced and difficult to get to stand with the other smurfs (being a ballerina or for some other reason balancing on one foot). The smurfs definitely don’t encourage a strong, feministic view of women. On the other hand, they do encourage children who play with them to come up with other role plays and unions than the usual male and female stereotypes and heteronormative family play, which many other dolls and figurines more or less automatically point towards.

Alternate Description

The smurfs encourage children and others to think beyond heternormative frames.

Identifierare

SE_UNSTRAIGHT_121

Typ

Autre

Other

Åtkomsträttigheter

accessible to public

Licens

-

Status

completed

Redigerat datum

2015-08-13T20:02:38+02:00

Skapat datum

2013-01-07T19:05:55+01:00