Aging With Disney and the Gendering of Evil

@inproceedings{Nada2015AgingWD,
  title={Aging With Disney and the Gendering of Evil},
  author={Nada and Ramadan and El-Nahla},
  year={2015}
}
Walt Disney animated films are considered synonymous with wholesome family entertainment despite the inherent negative messages of gender, age, and power hierarchies behind them. This paper proposes to explore the aspect of age as intersecting with gender through the villainesses in six of Disney’s popular animated films: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937), Cinderella (1950), Sleeping Beauty (1959), The Little Mermaid (1989), Tangled (2010), and Frozen (2013). How Disney alters the actions… 
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