When Disney first launched its first princess film in 1937. The young female character was very feminine and was meant to represent what girls should want to aspire to be like. Snow White was the first full length Disney film and this film generated around $418.2 million in the box office. This film was the start of the Disney Princess. The term Disney princess is now known world wide and in many ways this label does not represent positive connotations in the 21st centaury, the associations with label shows you to be dependent and stuck in the social hierarchy where women are at the bottom. Because the first Disney princesses were represented as prissy and good house wives this was the connotations we now think off when we speak about a Disney …show more content…
In Disney women are subject to a domestic life even if they are considered rich and powerful. In Cinderella the audience are shown a beautiful young girl being forced to do house work for her evil step mother and sisters. Her sisters are shown to be not as attractive as her and that is why she is hated by them because has more chance with a man because of her appearance. According to Towbin, Zimmerman, Lund and Tanner “A woman’s appearance is valued more than her intellect” which is shown by the prince falling in love with Cinderella just by her beauty and not anything else. The film shows a duke going around to all the “ladies” of his town and placing the shoe on their feet to try on the shoe in which Cinderella left behind. The ugly step sisters are shown to have too big of feet to fit the shoe, where as Cinderella has small delicate feet which is a symbol for a beautiful woman must be delicate and small. This suggests that ugly women will not get a husband because they are not good looking enough to marry, because beauty is all that counts. This outraged feminists because of the fact that women are more then just a pretty face and love is not all about being good