No So Happily Ever After
I choose to write my paper on Classic Disney films. My thesis is that Classic Disney socializes children into certain gender roles. These gender roles, create the patriarchal oppressive society in which we live. Boys are taught to be strong, independent, and active in their life by imitating the princes, while girls are to be emotional, domestic, and passive by imitating the princess. By following these normative gender roles the gaze is formed. The gaze is shown multiple times and ways in the Disney films. Classic Disney films produce the heteronormative society we live in by the content with in the films. The main films I used and cited were:
Cinderella
Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Hercules
Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
Comments
What a great topic! I did the same thing for a very short paper in my Psych of Women class. It was difficult for me there because it was a psych class and it is harder to throw feminist theory into a paper like that.
Good film choices too.
Posted by: Kate | December 15, 2007 8:32 PM