Beauty and the belles: Discourses of feminism and femininity in Disneyland

European Journal of Women's Studies

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 123-142

  Craven, Allison ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Beauty; Bestiality; Diff rance; Disney; Fairy tale; Feistiness; Glass coffin; Motherless; Spectatorship

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036262652     PISSN: 13505068     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1350682002009002806     Document Type: Review

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