Dual-gender doll

Abstract

The disclosure relates to a comforting educational tool in the form of a dual-gender doll having a humanoid body with a head, torso, two arms attached to opposing sides of the torso, and two legs attached to a portion of the bottom of the torso, wherein the body includes a feminine front side and a masculine front side. The feminine and masculine front sides are attached to and face away from each other. The feminine front side of the head includes two eye features with eyelashes, a mouth feature, and a feminine hair portion. The masculine front side of the head includes two eye features without eyelashes, a mouth feature, and a masculine hair portion.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A dual-gender doll, comprising:
 a humanoid body comprising a head, a torso attached to the head, a first arm attached to a first side of the torso, a second arm attached to an opposing second side of the torso, a first leg attached to a bottom of the torso, and a second leg attached to the bottom of the torso,   wherein the body comprises a feminine front side and a masculine front side, the feminine and masculine front sides being attached to and facing away from each other;   wherein the feminine front side of the head comprises: two eye features, a mouth feature, and a feminine hair portion, wherein each eye feature comprises an eye and two or more eyelashes; and   wherein the masculine front side of the head comprises: two eye features, a mouth feature, and a masculine hair portion, wherein the masculine eye features do not include eyelashes.   
     
     
         2 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein a silhouette of the feminine front side of the body is the same as a silhouette of the masculine front side of the body. 
     
     
         3 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein the feminine hair portion comprises a hair accessory component. 
     
     
         4 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein the masculine hair portion does not include a hair accessory component. 
     
     
         5 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein the feminine hair portion comprises a feminine hairline and the masculine hair portion comprises a masculine hairline, wherein the masculine and feminine hairlines are contoured differently. 
     
     
         6 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein each mouth feature is arranged as a smile. 
     
     
         7 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein the torso is attached to a tapered neck portion of the head. 
     
     
         8 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein the feminine front side of the torso comprises feminine clothing or a representation of feminine clothing. 
     
     
         9 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 8 , wherein the feminine clothing is a dress. 
     
     
         10 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein the masculine front side of the torso comprises masculine clothing or a representation of masculine clothing. 
     
     
         11 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 10 , wherein the masculine clothing comprises one or more of a shirt, pants, angular collar, suspenders, tie, bowtie, and suit. 
     
     
         12 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein the feminine front side of each arm comprises a feminine sleeve feature, and the masculine front side of each arm comprises a masculine sleeve feature. 
     
     
         13 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 12 , wherein the feminine and masculine sleeve features have lengths that are different. 
     
     
         14 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein the feminine front side of each of the first and second legs comprises an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion comprising a color or color pattern that is visually distinguishable from a color or color pattern of the lower portion. 
     
     
         15 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein the masculine front side of each of the first and second legs comprises an upper portion, a middle portion, and a lower portion, the upper portion comprising a color or color pattern that is visually distinguishable from a color or color pattern of the lower portion, and the middle portion comprising a color or color pattern that is visually distinguishable from at least one of the color or color pattern of the upper portion and the color or color pattern of the lower portion. 
     
     
         16 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein each of the first and second legs terminates in a bulbous end. 
     
     
         17 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein an interior of the doll contains a compressible stuffing material. 
     
     
         18 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein when the arms of the doll are fully extended from the torso, a distance from a terminal end of the first arm to a terminal end of the second arm is about 5 inches to about 50 inches. 
     
     
         19 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein when the legs of the doll are fully extended from the torso, a height of the doll from a terminal end of the first or second leg to an uppermost end of the head is about 6 inches to about 60 inches. 
     
     
         20 . The dual-gender doll of  claim 1 , wherein a distance from a central portion of an outer surface of the feminine torso to an opposing central portion of an outer surface of the masculine torso is about 1 inch to about 12 inches.