Analysis Of Little Girls Or Little Women : The Disney Princess Effect

The Walt Disney Company is a well-known franchise that is specifically popular among young children. This franchise’s growing popularity is due to their heart-warming, family-friendly animated films. In any given year these animated films were released, almost always they had a common theme present throughout the movie: the classic female princess who needs to be saved by the strong, handsome prince. Due to this common prevailing theme, this essay will analyze the claim that Disney only writes its characters to follow heteronormative roles with intentions to teach young viewers that they too must follow their gender heteronormative norms to be accepted by society. To prove this claim is true, research need to be conducted.

Fairy Tales have been around for hundreds of years, but up until recently have never been profited on as they are in today’s modern world. It is impossible to hide from anything Mr. Walt Disney has created, and that is exactly the company’s intentions. One huge area Disney has been excelling is in “Princess Culture” most specifically the focus on pretty pink dresses. For example, in Peggy Orenstein’s article “What’s Wrong with Cinderella?” the author addresses the many different consequences of Disney’s lucrative marketing strategy. The heavy influence of everything princess down to the choice of clothing can have a negative or positive impact on young girl’s minds, while stimulating innocence and purity can also encourage body image issues

The first Disney Princess, Snow White, was introduced seventy nine years ago. It has been part of my parents generation and the fairytales that the movie is based on has been a part of my grandparents generation. Fast forward today, and the Disney franchise is only growing larger worldwide and is a part of many people’s childhood. One thing that is clear is that Disney princesses are geared toward young children. With the beautiful dresses and the handsome prince, children are entranced by the stories and animation. They fall in love with the princesses and see the princesses as a mirror of themselves by dressing up and acting like then. The fact that young children are influenced by Disney Princess is a huge debate. This topic is very

The Disney princesses are a common sight in any household with girls under the age of 8. However, these seemingly harmless women contribute to a darker theme in media. In her essay, “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect”, Stephanie Hanes uses storytelling, strong facts, and helpful alternatives to effectively persuade parents that the media is targeting young girls with sexualized content, argues that this content is harmful to them in a number of ways, and inspires parents to take action.

Many parents/caregivers today may ask themselves if their little girls may be growing up too fast? Are they becoming little women too soon? Stephanie Hanes wrote an interesting and valid article “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect, “ which argue that many young ladies today in age may be impacted by Disney Princess regarding their life expectations. The author talks about the issues of young girls feeling the necessity to mature sooner rather than at a timely matter.

Throughout young girls lives they are shown how to look, how to dress, how to act, and what to do. The most prominent role models of these expectations are the princesses of Disney young girls are Johndra magic of the Disney princesses and in the original three Disney princess movies there's definitely magic. Without magic the young girls are shown how women And girls are expected to act and to look. These expectations shape the rest of these girls' lives. The shaping of their lives can be both good and bad.

`Nevertheless Stephanie’s whole article gets masked by expert claims which consist of topics that are not connected to the main idea of the article at hand. Stephanie leans on controversial claims from experts who have PhD’s to make up her whole entire paper. Through her use of various references she tries to support her argument mainly through text. The article leads into sections such as “SOCCER HEADING MAKES A BAD HAIR DAY” (Hanes484) and “SEXY’S NOT ABOUT SEX, ITS ABOUT SHOPPING’’ (Hanes487). She uses those sections to create different aspects of sexualization and cause the reader to reflect on the given information. With that being said these sections do state things about how the media plays on hyper sexualized images and girls becoming women too fast. However the main purpose of the article gets lost upon topic such as pornography, sexy clothing and sexting. If the organizational use of research and personal experiences had tied into Stephanie’s original claim against the Disney Princesses Empire her article would have been more put together.

As a young girl I imagined what it would be like to be a woman, Disney princesses had very little influence on this reality. Stephanie Hanes, the author of “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect,” discusses how little girls feel they must grow up too soon. There are several other women introduced throughout her essay whom share similar thoughts. Moms all over the world may have varying opinions on this subject; however, the women that Stephanie chose to display in her work, at least the majority of them, agree that Disney princesses might be the culprit of this behavior. There are a few brief statements that acknowledge that not everyone agrees with the idea that Disney princesses are causing this phenomenon. There are

The sexualization of young girls and women in society is a prevalent theme in mass media. Presently, the sexualization of females is commonly seen in various consumer items like clothes, dolls, and even in Disney movies, according to “The Sexualization of Girls Is Harmful” article. The author says that sexualization occurs when “a person’s value comes only from his or her sexual appeal or behavior; a person is held to a standard that equates physical attractiveness with being sexy; a person is sexually objectified- made into a thing for others’ sexual use; and sexuality is inappropriately imposed upon a person (AboutKidsHealth).” Furthermore, the author provides statistics on how girls are being sexualized by the products they see and use

In the article, Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princesses by Dawn England, Lara Descartes, and Melissa Collier-Meek, the authors discuss Disney’s portrayal of gender roles through princess movies, and they argue that Disney is providing children with stereotypical gender-role models. Throughout the article the authors discuss the over-sexualization of the princesses and their more dominantly effeminate traits. The authors also composed a coding system for traits demonstrated by the princes and the princesses through the Disney movies from Snow White up until the most current at the time of the article, Princess and the Frog. The coding scheme for traits had two categories that traits would fall under, traditionally masculine and traditionally

The purpose for my infographic is to categorize each Princess into their generation. The reason being that the princesses would demonstrate different gender roles because of the years the films were created. By classifying the princess and then breaking down the characteristics reveals that Disney has evolved the princesses. Additionally, the breakdown also reveals that many gender roles are still being portrayed. For my title, I decided to use a white simple font hoping that it would pop. Then I used a cursive pink font for “Disney Princesses” just because pink and the font is mostly associated with a feminine look that can be connected to the princesses. The castle is meant to draw the eye of the audience. A castle is a connection to the princesses. If the reader was to glance at the infographic he/she can get an idea that it is connected to princesses or a fairytale.

When you think back to Elementary school or the early middle school days, what do you remember? Is it chasing the boys around the playground? Is it finally convincing your mom to let you wear a training bra or mascara? Or is it something negative like getting made fun of for what you were wearing or for not having a cell phone? All of these are caused by “The Disney Princess Effect”. Stephanie Hanes, a freelance journalist, discusses the early sexual growth of young women and how Disney Princess or social media can have a huge effect on this ongoing issue that has continued to impact little girls at a younger and younger age. Could it be possible that your favorite Disney Princess was a huge reason why you acted

In “Bad Feminist,” Roxane Gay deliberates on feminism and how it is categorized as there being “good” feminism, and “bad” feminism. Feminism as a whole is described by Gay as, “”women who don’t want to be treated like shit”” (169). The “good” feminism is described closely to essential feminism, a social construct of what “defines” a feminist. Pop culture, such as Twitter and Facebook reiterate this stereotype by hyping up these rude molds of how feminists are. The needs of dismantling gendered stereotypes are prominent, specifically for such a stereotype defined in essential feminism. This, unfortunately is not the only case where someone shed light on an issue that needs to be fixed, but instead is glorified and shown dramatically in pop culture. Walt Disney Productions is a business that is a top tier member of the pop culture industry and for that, their consumers range vastly thus affecting many walks of life. They are involved in making all types of entertainment, but specially analyzing their work in films, the Disney films present us with stereotypical notions of gender. In the article, Gender Role Portrayal and the Disney Princesses it is stated that, “Disney and its princess phenomenon have been identified as a powerful influence on children’s media and product consumerism, contributing to a new “girlhood” that is largely defined by gender… thus, the Disney Princess line and its gender role portrayals have important implications for international children’s media as

Can Disney princess movies truly have negative effects on little girls and make them insecure and highly misinformed? According to Disney spokespersons, the role Disney princesses play in the lives of little girls remains “a normal part of their childhood development”. Although some people believe that Disney princesses provide little girls with negative self-images, Disney’s movies--both new and old--portray numerous positive role models that deconstruct faulty stereotypes, Recently, the movie Frozen produced numerous characters that debunked detrimental stereotypes, which elucidated the fact that Disney movies utilize positive characters worthy of imitation. Most notably, Princess Anna possesses a variety of qualities that

In the past century, we have seen how Disney princesses have evolved alongside the evolution of society and what society was, or is, believing in. Women have, over the years, brought about change in gender equality. We believe that Disney has created his Disney princess movies to adhere to the beliefs of the society at that time. Looking back at the history of society, it was discovered that the “generations” of Disney Princesses followed the characteristics, traits and beliefs of the three waves of feminism. The first wave concentrated mainly on women obtaining legal rights, political power and suffrage. The second wave inspired women to fight for equality in their personal lives and other forms of inequality in society, education