Disney
Respond paper to “ Construction of the Female Self: Feminist Readings of the Disney Heroine”
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, and Pocahontas are five Disney stories in which the female self is embedded. The feminist standpoint theory discus the idea of the “perfect girl” and its consequences on the female’s power, relationships, selfhood, and voice. The paper we have in hand discusses the dilemma that the females face between the “perfect girl” ideology and what their experience taught them. Based on what is listed above, this responds paper is designed to highlight gender roles and gender identities through the five Disney movies listed above.
A tension is noted between the feminist and Disney enterprise since the beginning of the movies of Disney in 1937. This tension gives the parents the freedom to selectively choose what their kids watch since this tension highlight the essence of Disney movies and the hidden message between the scenes of the fairy tales. The representation of women in Disney films is in a way based on Walt Disney’s experience and feelings about life. He inserted his personal experience of life in the movies, which reflects the patriarchal cultural thoughts about the roles of women in the society. This way he is transforming his experience into culture that changes the kids psychologically.
The main source of conflict in the Disney films is that they show standards for young girls on how they must behave to grow up into a perfect woman that lives happily ever after with what she always wanted. From Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, Disney is being blamed for the image of the perfect girl these movies represent. That girl must be skinny, beautiful, obedient, and do housewife duties perfectly in order to reach the happy ending. Whereas feminists see that these films must show a more strong and independent figure of the woman. But Disney has progressed through the movies and started to represent the woman
Cinderella, Sleeping Beauty, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and The Beast, and Pocahontas are five Disney stories in which the female self is embedded. The feminist standpoint theory discus the idea of the “perfect girl” and its consequences on the female’s power, relationships, selfhood, and voice. The paper we have in hand discusses the dilemma that the females face between the “perfect girl” ideology and what their experience taught them. Based on what is listed above, this responds paper is designed to highlight gender roles and gender identities through the five Disney movies listed above.
A tension is noted between the feminist and Disney enterprise since the beginning of the movies of Disney in 1937. This tension gives the parents the freedom to selectively choose what their kids watch since this tension highlight the essence of Disney movies and the hidden message between the scenes of the fairy tales. The representation of women in Disney films is in a way based on Walt Disney’s experience and feelings about life. He inserted his personal experience of life in the movies, which reflects the patriarchal cultural thoughts about the roles of women in the society. This way he is transforming his experience into culture that changes the kids psychologically.
The main source of conflict in the Disney films is that they show standards for young girls on how they must behave to grow up into a perfect woman that lives happily ever after with what she always wanted. From Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, Disney is being blamed for the image of the perfect girl these movies represent. That girl must be skinny, beautiful, obedient, and do housewife duties perfectly in order to reach the happy ending. Whereas feminists see that these films must show a more strong and independent figure of the woman. But Disney has progressed through the movies and started to represent the woman