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How Feminism Changed Male Gender Roles in Children's Film Disney

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Introduction
In Disney’s animated children’s films, feminism greatly advocated for change in gender
roles
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In spite of the fact that Disney adopted animated film to
sensitize the children on changes in gender roles, it is certain that children literally adopted the
perception depicted by the films
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However, the research paper will exploring the extent to which
feminism changed male gender roles in children's film
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This has
greatly changed especially on the way in which young generation in the America think and act,
in fact it has been observed for years that how young generation think and act is similar to way
based on their favorite princesses and/or princes (Gillam and Shannon, 2008)
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Disney has released 11 theatrical features labelled as part of Disney princess line
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In history, during pre-transition category (1937- 1959), Charlotte Krolokke who was an
assistant professor in the University of Southern Denmark, department of cultural studies
explicitly defined the “first wave of feminism
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It is
purported that by then, women were merely confined to stereotype of homemakers
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Moreover, in Disney films, gender roles were often affirmed through visible actions of
each princess, this was in compliance with what was expected within predominantly male
centered society
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Disney film “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”, the film portrayed Snow White as a
very naïve princess who overly depended on her seven male friends and a prince for survival, a
very sad story indeed since it portrayed a young girl’s personal discovery being turned into
portrait of women’s domesticity (Maccoby and Carol, 1974)
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In another plot, Disney film “Cinderella and sleeping beauty,” also showcased disheartening
movie
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Stereotypes of that time which created the need to progressing organize for
women movements towards equality for their emancipation
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Ina addition, Youngs (1999) explained
new steps towards progression in gender roles definition in USA
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As a women, it is expect to
assert that Frozen’s Anna documented prevailing sources of information which were later used to
deliver criticism within gender patterns
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All in all the protagonist’s happy life-ever unfortunately
depended on her return to the home where she was expected to perform her roles as a woman be
it subservient or docile wife
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In her quest to adventure, brace and curious, the princes played
instrumental role in Disney’s progression of the independent woman with ability to make
decisions on what ways suits her best
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To boys, it was a sight of power since men have overall
say in a family set-up
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In the wave of progression in feminism, the exhibited case of the 1991 Beauty
and the Beast fell short due to similar reasons which lead to the desire to enhance women
emancipation (Macintyre, 2012)
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In some
situation, it was explicitly expressed how women undergo hard situation
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The young lady acted with haste and bravery to save her father
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Such

tribulations centred on women exhibit efforts to break out of gender role and follow own paths
other than that which id defined for her
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As a young lady who wished to marry a loved one, just
to avoid arranged marriage, the Disney film erodes cultural dictates since it creates an
understanding that women do not need to be married according to cultural beliefs but instead,
they (women) have ability to decide on whom to marry
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In another scene, with Princess and the Frog, set within New Orleans in 1912, which was
situated around Tiana, Disney’s first African-American princess
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The young people form majority of actors in Disney, which greatly impacts children and the
youths as far as their future is concerned
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She hinted at breaking through the gender barriers that prevailed in order to adventure on
in seeing the lights of Corona (Maccoby and Carol, 1974)
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In the film, after Tangled, Brave also
offered a new version of female protagonist that broken the pattern of princesses’ fairy tales
(Macintyre, 2012)
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In fact, she was very

worried that her fate would be determined by someone else (Maccoby and Carol, 1974)
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Young generation and the
Disney princesses rebelled against their own stereotype (Macintyre, 2012)
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Merida in her
story affirmed that her personal discovery was important in her lifetime since it enhanced the
realization that sacrifices have to be made in the name for a family (Maccoby and Carol, 1974)
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This creates diverse reasons to influence family life from childhood to
old age
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As such, child’s self-directed imitations plays great role in
determining sex role conception
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Hence it is suggested that “children’s choice of the person
to imitate is key in their general perception on gender development
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Conclusion
Disney used play to illustrate the reality in feminism especially on younger people,
children inclusive
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It implies that the children enacts all
the roles exhibited around them through demonstration of in-depth understanding of daddy and
mummy perception, as well as distinct characters in their favorite movies and cartoon collections
(Gillam and Shannon, 2008)
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It is realistic that when children play with Disney Princess toys they reenact film scripts
and distinctive 3xpectatiosn of each princess character (Maccoby and Carol, 1974)
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This implies that children take
social cues from what they see on screen, now playing with figures afterthought movies makes it
highly possible for the children to derive deeper understanding of the reality especially on
feminism since they get the concept of ideas through repetition
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E
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N
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Myth, reality and shades of gray: What we
know and don't know about sex differences
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The authors exemplified their lives based on sex similarities and differences, for example, in
page 110, sex differences are described to be far from trivial since accumulated human
knowledge in this area is incomplete
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As such, the authors exemplified
that child’s self-directed imitations plays great role in determining sex role conception
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(2012)
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2nd ed
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The author highlighted the potential within play activities in the book
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Moreover, the
author affirms that children should be understood in their own context, a fact which underlies
decision for interventions within the play
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Gender bias is expressed deeply in the book, for
example; on page 24, the author stated that children behave as they do at different ages, thus
practitioners should understand why children behave the way they do
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W
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"Post-princess models of gender: The new man in
Disney/Pixar": Journal of Popular Film and Television
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The authors strived to feature masculine protagonists
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However, male lots
in the film are affirmed to be similar with patterns of masculinity being developed in three main
ways: cars, toy stories and the incredible
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In the latter sessions, it
is stated that women emancipation was necessary since they also preferred to make their own
decisions and live freely unlike the past when they were often caged and controlled in their

undertakings
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Overall, the book reflected much on feminism and change in
gender roles
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W
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"Post-princess models of gender: The new man in
Disney/Pixar": Journal of Popular Film and Television
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Maccoby, E
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, and Carol, N
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(1974)
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Stanford: Stanford
University Press
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Macintyre, C
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Enhancing Learning through Play: A Developmental Perspective for Early
Years Settings
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, New York: Routledge, 8-34

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