Gender Roles In Walt Disney's Fairytales

The authors, researchers at the american folklore society, use data from the immense archives of Disney's vast fairytale publications to evaluate gender characteristics that have formed within the creation of these publications. The chapter within the journal explains the creation method of the folklore and how the gender roles were created due to the time period and the infrastructure that the writing took place under. The gender roles, especially those pertaining to the stereotypical monolithic role that has been very present within these fables and how they have been passed through the time and youth. They have found that gender stereotypes, especially concerning women have been wrongfully represented within many of walt Disney's fairytales. The heroines that are evaluated by the american folklore society see that within Walt Disney's Fairytales these women have to be perfect and have no defects. They found this data through comparing and contrasting different fairytales and what exact time-period the stories were written in.

The authors, with all their data find that monolithic gender roles are still very much present within contemporary fairy tales and that its become a habit within the writing culture to write what would sell.