Gender Roles In Disney Princess Films
How Women are represented in Disney Films
This literature review is on how women are represented in Disney Princess films. Disney Princess films are watched all over the world by different age ranges and genders. Henry Giroux (1999) has showed that Disney has become a new “teaching mechanism” that is slowly replacing old teaching ways. Disney is a huge part of Children’s lives. But what are Disney Princesses teaching our children? How are they stereotyping women? And more importantly, are they putting all women in the same category?
Gender roles are a set of ‘behavioural norms’ that have been given to males and females. They allow people to stereotype a persons identity based on their gender attributes. Blackstone says “Gender roles are based on the different expectations that …show more content…
They just sit and wait for the Prince to come and find them, and when the prince finally finds the princess they live happily ever after. The princess will also change their life for the Prince just so they will love them. The message that is coming through is that men should be the active romantic pursuers and the ladies should be passive and wait around for the man to take lead.
The Little Mermaid is the perfect stereotypical passive female role. Ariel is the same as all the earlier Disney heroines; the only difference is she is sexy for wearing a bikini that is made from shells. She is willing to do anything in order to make the Prince fall in love with her. She even is willing to give up her voice so she can have legs to make her look better in front of the prince. The film ends on a happy not and I cant help but think this shows if you leave everything behind for a “Prince” you will have a happy ending. “Ariel who gives up everything including her family and career just for her romance would have somewhat negative influence on young girls who have to study and think about their careers in the future.” (Yerby, Baron and Lee,
This literature review is on how women are represented in Disney Princess films. Disney Princess films are watched all over the world by different age ranges and genders. Henry Giroux (1999) has showed that Disney has become a new “teaching mechanism” that is slowly replacing old teaching ways. Disney is a huge part of Children’s lives. But what are Disney Princesses teaching our children? How are they stereotyping women? And more importantly, are they putting all women in the same category?
Gender roles are a set of ‘behavioural norms’ that have been given to males and females. They allow people to stereotype a persons identity based on their gender attributes. Blackstone says “Gender roles are based on the different expectations that …show more content…
They just sit and wait for the Prince to come and find them, and when the prince finally finds the princess they live happily ever after. The princess will also change their life for the Prince just so they will love them. The message that is coming through is that men should be the active romantic pursuers and the ladies should be passive and wait around for the man to take lead.
The Little Mermaid is the perfect stereotypical passive female role. Ariel is the same as all the earlier Disney heroines; the only difference is she is sexy for wearing a bikini that is made from shells. She is willing to do anything in order to make the Prince fall in love with her. She even is willing to give up her voice so she can have legs to make her look better in front of the prince. The film ends on a happy not and I cant help but think this shows if you leave everything behind for a “Prince” you will have a happy ending. “Ariel who gives up everything including her family and career just for her romance would have somewhat negative influence on young girls who have to study and think about their careers in the future.” (Yerby, Baron and Lee,