1. To assess Disney’s representation of male and female characters
Gender in Disney
To assess Disney’s representation of male and female characters

2. CHILDREN
List all the places & sources (tangible & intangible) children find out about the world they are living in:
Parents
Films

3. DISNEY
Walt Disney Pictures is a famous film production company known for creating films aimed at children.
For many children, Disney films are one of the first places where they learn about ideologies (values and beliefs).

4. GENDER IN DISNEY
Create a table for each gender and list the qualities they share in common
Shared qualities for Disney Princesses
Qualities that set Disney Princesses apart
Shared qualities for Disney Princes
Qualities that set Disney Princes apart

5. DISNEY PRINCESSES

6. WOMEN IN DISNEY Shared qualities for Disney Princesses
Qualities that set Disney Princesses apart

7. DISNEY PRINCES Characters from left to right: Snow White
Sleeping Beauty
Aladdin
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
Cinderella

8. MEN IN DISNEY Shared qualities for Disney Princes
Qualities that set Disney Princes apart

9. GENDER IN DISNEY
Based on the lists, what values and beliefs children are learning about being male and female?

10. CONTEMPORARY DISNEY RELEASES
How have these recent Disney films tried to adapt the male and female representations?

11. PLAN A PRINCESS
How will your princess be different from a Disney Princess?
What is her goal?
What is her challenge?
Where is she from?
What does she look like?
Plan a story summary ignoring/flipping the 6 princess steps
Trauma, Perseverance, Romance, Peril, Rescue, True Love
Put it in Todorov’s Theory