Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Disney Female Characters

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.211120.085How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Disney; Disney princess; Gender stereotype; feminism; Female empowerment

Abstract

Disney company has already released many female-led animated films, but its films have gender stereotypes towards females. Since 1937 Disney released its first princess film Snow White, Disney has always created beautiful princesses who are attached to men. Although Disney and fans of Disney asserted that Disney deviated from this trend since 2013 by releasing Frozen(2013), Zootopia(2016), and Moana(2016), these movies still have aspects of gender stereotype in veiled ways. This thesis aims to utilize literature review and case study to analyze the reasons the female characters in Disney films, which are the result of gender stereotypes and predictions to the trend of Disney portraying its following female characters. According to my analysis, gender stereotypes still exist both in Disney movies released before 2013 and that after 2013. Female characters have not escaped the shackles of male control, not only in appearance but also in action.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiaxin Ji
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/11/29
TI  - Analysis of Gender Stereotypes in Disney Female Characters
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 3rd International Conference on Literature, Art and Human Development (ICLAHD 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 451
EP  - 454
SN  - 2352-5398
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