Suheila Nazar requested information regarding the depiction of women in
Disney's animated films.  A topic near and dear to my heart, considering I
wrote my masters thesis on a related topic.  Suheila, I hope the following
information will be of use to you:
 
Bell, Elizabeth, Lynda Haas, and Laura Sells, eds.  FROM MOUSE TO MERMAID:  THE
        POLITICS OF FILM, GENDER AND CULTURE.  Bloomington:  Indiana UP,
1995.  An
        anthology devoted to Disney's animated features.
 
Corrigan, Don.  "Aladdin--Like Much of U.S. Entertainment and Media--is
Flawed by Stereotypes."
        ST. LOUIS JOURNALISM REVIEW (Feb 1993).  13-19.
 
Crafton, Donald.  "The Last Night in the Nursery:  Walt Disney's _Peter
Pan_."  THE VELVET
        LIGHT TRAP 24 (Fall 1989).  33-52.
 
Giroux, Henry.  "Animating Youth:  The Disneyfication of Children's
Culture."  SOCIALIST
        REVIEW  (Summer 1995).  23-55.
 
Leadbeater, Bonnie J. and gloria Lodato Wilson.  "Flipping Their Fins for a
Place to Stand:  19th-
        and 20th-Century Mermaids."  YOUTH & SOCIETY (Jun 1993).  466-486.
 
Thomas, Bob.  DISNEY'S ART OF ANIMATION:  FROM MICKEY MOUSE TO BEAUTY AND
        THE BEAST.  New York:  Hyperion, 1992.
 
Trites, Roberta.  "The Little Mermaid."  JOURNAL OF POPULAR FILM &
TELEVISION (Sep 1990).  145-152.
 
Warner, Marina.  "Beauty and the Beasts."  SIGHT & SOUND (Oct 1992).  6-11.
 
WOMEN'S STUDIES IN COMMUNICATION.  v19 n2 (Summer 1996).  The entire issue is
        devoted to analyses of Disney's animated features.
 
Although this is only a snippet of what is available, most of which is
taken from the bibliography of my master's thesis, these should at least
point you toward what you are looking for.
 
Lisa :-)
 
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"Many author-mothers conclude that maternity has enabled them to reject
male standards of writing . . . [M]any female authors come to see their
creation in human reproductive terms, reclaiming for women a metaphor long
appropriated by men."
                                              --Lucy Fischer
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Lisa R. Barry
Ph.D. Candidate
The Pennsylvania State University
234 Sparks Building
University Park, PA  16802
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