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 :-) ======================================= "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 ======================================= Lisa R. Barry Ph.D. Candidate The Pennsylvania State University 234 Sparks Building University Park, PA 16802 [log in to unmask] http://www.personal.psu.edu/lrb7 ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite