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I came across this video while doing my research and it's a great video. It talks about the new vs. old princesses and how young girls look at these princesses as role models. This leads to the question as a parent, "do I let my child watch all Disney movies? Or just the one's with a strong independent lead?". The hosts also talk about the psychological effects that these movies have on young girls.

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This is a picture of a bunch of girls dressed as a Disney Princess. If you notice, they are all posed like how a princess would pose. Looking at other pictures here, their poses are similar. This picture is just to remind us of our childhood and how for some girls, if not a lot, grew up with Disney.

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This article talks about Disney movies and gender roles. It talks about the new Disney movies and older ones and how they portray gender roles. You see a shift in the newer ones where the princesses are not as feminine as the older ones.

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Here we have a picture of our old Disney princesses. Most of us grew up watching these girls and copying them in every way. They taught us things like beauty, being young and naive, depending on others to help or save us (That's not always a bad thing). We learned how to cook and clean after men. We should be okay with men kissing us in our sleep and making us their princess.

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This article talks about how Disney movies have created "princess culture" in young girls. They also talk about what it really meant to be a princess prior to Disney movies being released in the 1930's.

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"Dress Up in Dreams" says the sign adorning the Disney Store's display of princess costumes. It's a persuasive invitation. In 2011 alone, the company sold $3 billion in Disney Princess merchandise, from dolls and dresses to backpacks and beds.1 It got into the business almost by accident. In 2000, the new head of the company's consumer products division noticed that many of the girls attend- ing a Disney on Ice show had cobbled together their own princess costumes. The next day he gave his team a mandate: to churn out products that would allow "girls to do what they're doing anyway: projecting themselves into the characters from the classic movies." The glamor came first, the merchandising later.

It's a truism: Every little girl dreams of being a princess. (A Google search for that exact phrase turns up more than 821,000 instances.3) The power of the archetype predates Disney's marketing machine and will no doubt outlive it, because to play princess is to embrace two eternally alluring promises: You are special and Life can be wonderful. Those promises are princess glamour's stable emotional core. But what exactly they mean changes with audience and circumstances.

Long before Disney reimagined Snow White and Cinderella, the fairy tales on which those movies were based portrayed princesses as special creatures, blessed (and sometimes cursed) beyond the experiences of regular folk. A princess was beautiful, honored, and, by dint of birth or marriage, rich. In a world far less affluent than our own, to be a princess meant escaping poverty and hardship-an association that persisted well into the twentieth century. "I'll live like a princess in a house that runs like magic," declares the excited housewife depicted in a World War II-era American Gas Association ad, describing her "post-war dream."

Playing on these associations, mass marketers in the 1920s used obscure European princesses to lend an aristocratic aura to their products, infusing everyday experiences with glamour. A Pond's cold cream ad featuring Princesse Marie de Bourbon of Spain de- scribed her "patrician-white" skin as having "the delicacy of the jasmine flower that blooms in the tangled depths of old, neglected Catalonian gardens." Princess Giambattista Rospigliosi (née Ethel Bronson of Manhattan) declared that only Lux soap was good enough for laundering the precious lace of her great-grandmother's wedding veil.

While the wealth and status of real-world royalty once gave the archetype much of its allure, by the late twentieth century the archetype had glamorized actual royalty, with all the illusion that implies. Having grown up on Barbara Cartland romance novels, the young Diana Spencer fantasized to a friend that marrying Prince Charles "could be quite fun. It would be like Anne Boleyn or Guinevere!" (The fates of these two legendary ladies prompted the response, "I bloody hope not!") When she did marry the prince, Diana refined her princess fantasies in her famous wedding dress. "She would be a fairy bride for her father and her Prince," writes Tina Brown in her biography of the princess. "Those creamy ruffles and ivory frills would ﬂoat her away from the agonies of the present to a future of certain love."

In the years since Diana, the princess archetype has become even more detached from the privileges of real-life royalty. When supermodel Kate Moss's daughter, Lila, then four years old, met actual princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, the little girl was not impressed. "How come if you are princesses you don't have tiaras and a pink dress?" she demanded. As for the public's new favorite princess, the limited glamour of Kate Middleton, now the duchess of Cambridge, lies in her poise, wholesome attractiveness, and impeccable personal style. Her marriage to Prince William is just the way she became famous, not a fantasy in itself. Fans crave her great hair more than her royal status. She could just as well be the latest ingenue actress.

As the unimpressed young Lila demonstrates, princess glamour has largely become a childhood fantasy. It represents a feminine version of the appeal Michael Chabon, in his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, ascribes to superheroes. Princesses, too, express the "lust for power and the gaudy sartorial taste of a race of powerless people with no leave to dress themselves." For some young girls, playing princess is, in fact, merely the stage before playing superhero. Like the superhero, the princess has a special identity, destiny, and costume. She is more than an ordinary girl.

Among today's educated urbanites, however, princess glamor is suspect. The postfeminist mothers of princess-besotted little girls worry that the archetype teaches their daughters to be pretty and helpless, waiting for a prince to rescue them instead of acting on their own behalf. "I don't want my daughter to be a princess; I don't want her to be girly or silly, or anything that is attributed to princess idolatry," declares the feminist blogger Marina DelVecchio, the mother of a princess-loving three-year-old. "I want her to be strong and intelligent, fiery and conﬁdent."

A more sanguine contemporary mother, blogger Sasha Brown-Worsham, observes, "'Princess culture' is what you make it." The princess archetype comes in many versions-one reason for its power and persistence. Iconic princesses range from the domestic Cinderella to the warrior Xena, from the cleverly faithful Penelope to the dangerously beautiful Helen, from feisty Princess Leia to the many cinematic reinventions of Elizabeth Tudor. The 2012 movie Snow White and the Huntsman reimagines its heroine as a good-hearted, relatively plain rebel leader. Wonder Woman is both superhero and princess.

Beyond feeling special, what it means to dream of being a princess depends largely on the dreamer. "When I was a kid, my best friend and I dressed up as princesses," recalls a blog commenter. "In our play we were always kidnapped by the bad guys and had to use our kickass martial arts and fencing skills to escape. While wearing pretty dresses."
From THE POWER OF GLAMOUR by Virginia Postrel. Copyright © 2013 by Virginia Postrel. Reprinted by permission of Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.

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Has 'Princess Culture' Gone Too Far? (NEW BOOK)

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"Dress Up in Dreams" says the sign adorning the Disney Store's display of princess costumes. It's a persuasive invitation. In 2011 alone, the company sold $3 billion in Disney Princess merchandise, from dolls and dresses to backpacks and beds.1 It got into the business almost by accident.

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In addition to the older princesses, we have newer ones. These hew ones took a step forward in the right direction and expose young girls to empowered women. They are not your traditional princesses and teach young girls things such as hard work, independence, motivation and empowerment.

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Disney Movies creating stereotypical behaviour for young girls

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Disney Movies creating stereotypical behaviour for young girls

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This article talks about Disney movies and how they promote stereotypical gender roles in young girls. It talks about how these behaviours and roles are learnt by the ages of 4 or 5. If we're teaching these roles to our girls at a young age, this could lead to a lot of issues later on. This could lead to a lot of girls dealing with mental heath issues and going to extremes to meet society's expectation on women.

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Children don't have to completely disengage with princess culture, but parents should foster a wide variety of interests and talk to their kids about media influences, according to new research from BYU. Credit: Mark A. Philbrick/

Parents tend to be careful about what media their children consume and often look to ratings to guide their movie choices. But one symbol might be more powerful than any rating or review-the Disney logo. Heralded by adults and kids alike, Disney Princess animated movies are the quintessential "kids' movies," positive and enjoyable for all.

But new research from BYU family life professor Sarah M. Coyne shows that engagement with Disney Princess culture isn't so harmless-it can influence preschoolers to be more susceptible to potentially damaging stereotypes. These stereotypical behaviors aren't bad in and of themselves, but past research has shown that they can be limiting in the long term for young women.

"I think parents think that the Disney Princess culture is safe. That's the word I hear time and time again-it's 'safe,'" Coyne said. "But if we're fully jumping in here and really embracing it, parents should really consider the long-term impact of the princess culture."

The study, published in Child Development, involved 198 preschoolers and assessed how much they interacted with Disney Princess culture (watching movies, playing with toys, etc.). The assessments of princess engagement and gender-stereotypical behavior were based on reports from parents and teachers and an interactive task where the children would sort and rank their favorite toys from a varied collection of "girl" toys (dolls, tea sets), "boy" toys (action figures, tool sets) and gender-neutral options (puzzles, paint).

The researchers found that 96 percent of girls and 87 percent of boys had viewed Disney Princess media. And while more than 61 percent of girls played with princess toys at least once a week, only four percent of boys did the same.

For both boys and girls, more interactions with the princesses predicted more female gender-stereotypical behavior a year later.

Disney has come a long way, but still has some work to do, says Coyne.

Gendered behavior can become problematic if girls avoid important learning experiences that aren't perceived as feminine or believe their opportunities in life are different as women.

"We know that girls who strongly adhere to female gender stereotypes feel like they can't do some things," Coyne said. "They're not as confident that they can do well in math and science. They don't like getting dirty, so they're less likely to try and experiment with things."

Greater female stereotypical behavior isn't worrisome for boys because the boys in the study who engaged with Disney Princess media had better body esteem and were more helpful to others. These beneficial effects suggest that princesses provide a needed counterbalance to the hyper-masculine superhero media that's traditionally presented to boys.

However, the negative effects for girls aren't limited to damaging stereotypical behavior alone. The study also shows that girls with worse body esteem engage more with the Disney Princesses over time, perhaps seeking out role models of what they consider to be beautiful.

"Disney Princesses represent some of the first examples of exposure to the thin ideal," Coyne said. "As women, we get it our whole lives, and it really does start at the Disney Princess level, at age three and four."

Children don't have to completely disengage with princess culture-it's not realistic to avoid the abundant princess movies, toys and branded merchandise. Instead, parents should foster a wide variety of interests and talk to their kids about media influences.

"I'd say, have moderation in all things," Coyne said. "Have your kids involved in all sorts of activities, and just have princesses be one of many, many things that they like to do and engage with."

For both genders, the study discovered that parents who discuss princess media with their children have a significant effect on their children's behavior. Coyne adds that it's important to be careful about the way in which parents talk to their kids about princesses.

"It's frustrating when the dentist sees my daughter and says, 'Look at the little princess!' because she's so much more than that," Coyne said. "When we talk to little girls, we hear less of 'You're so smart, you worked so hard, your body can do great things!' but that is the more important message we should be sending."

Parents also shouldn't be afraid to discuss the good and bad of Disney Princess culture. Coyne says not to get too heavy with younger children, but pointing out the positives and negatives can help kids be more aware of the media they're consuming. She's even done this with her own daughter:

"What drives me crazy is when you get a princess who's not gender stereotyped, like Merida from Brave," Coyne said. "I took my daughter to see it, and afterward we had a great coversation about how strong, brave and independent Merida was in the movie. And then in the marketing, Disney slims her down, sexualizes her, takes away her bow and arrow, gives her makeup-feminizes her. So then we're at the supermarket and see this 'new Merida' on fruit snacks and soup cans, and I point it out to my daughter and we have a conversation about the difference. And now when we're at the store, she'll see the soup can herself and say, 'That's not the real Merida and I'm not buying it.'

Coyne is not alone in her thinking. In 2013, a petition on change.org from A Mighty Girl has more than 260,000 supporters to #KeepMeridaBrave.

Coyne's daughter was three years old when work began on the study, and while it's rare for Coyne's research to impact her life directly, these findings hit close to home.

"This study has changed the way I talk to my daughter, the things I focus on, and it's been really good for me as a parent to learn from this study," Coyne said. "I usually can't say that my research findings have such a personal impact on my life."

Coyne has authored more than 80 studies on media influences, gender, aggression and developmental psychology in top peer-reviewed publications. Her work on how profanity in the media increases teen aggression appeared in Pediatrics and another study on how video games can be good for girls was published in the Journal of Adolescent Health.

More information: Sarah M. Coyne et al, Pretty as a Princess: Longitudinal Effects of Engagement With Disney Princesses on Gender Stereotypes, Body Esteem, and Prosocial Behavior in Children, Child Development (2016). DOI: 10.1111/cdev.12569

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Study finds Disney Princess culture magnifies stereotypes in young girls

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Parents tend to be careful about what media their children consume and often look to ratings to guide their movie choices. But one symbol might be more powerful than any rating or review-the Disney logo. Heralded by adults and kids alike, Disney Princess animated movies are the quintessential "kids' movies," positive and enjoyable for all.

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Disney movies promoting "princess culture"

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Disney movies promoting "princess culture"

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This is a really good article to read. It touches on Disney movies and introduces the term "Princess culture". In some sense you can connect this to the 'male gaze' and how at an early age, we are training our young girls to look a certain way, and that is beautiful, clean and proper. This will eventually get them their prince

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Fictional princesses are perennial preschool favorites. Since Disney launched its Princess brand in 2000, the Disney Princesses have become ubiquitous, represented in virtually every product category - dolls and dresses, of course, but also even seed packets and grapes.

Partly as a result, little girls strongly identify with princess culture, and adults often assume girls naturally love princesses. When girls dare to be different, it's unexpected and delightful - like the little girl who recently sparked widespread adoration and praise by dressing as a hot dog instead of a princess for her dance studio's Princess Day.

But as I have previously argued, princess culture is not all fun and games. The Disney Princess brand suggests that a girl's most valuable asset is her beauty, which encourages an unhealthy preoccupation with physical appearance. The brand also implies that girls should be sweet and submissive, and should expect a man to come to their rescue in an act of love at first sight. Although newer characters like Elsa, Anna, Merida and Rapunzel behave in ways that correct these ideas, as a whole, the brand remains out of step with modern ideas about raising girls.

Now a new article in the scholarly journal Child Development has detailed the negative effects of princess culture on girls. Lead author Sarah Coyne, an associate professor of family life at Brigham Young University, was inspired to conduct this study after reading journalist Peggy Orenstein's 2011 bestseller " Cinderella Ate My Daughter." Her own daughter was 3 at the time. As a parent, Coyne shared Orenstein's concerns about what princess-driven marketing was doing, but as a social scientist, she realized there was little social science data on princess culture's influence.

So, she and her team designed and executed a study of 198 preschool- and kindergarten-aged girls and boys. Their findings reinforce some serious concerns about princess culture. For instance:

The more the girls in the study engaged with princess culture, the more they behaved in stereotypically feminine ways.

Girls with a lower body image when the study began tended to be more interested in princess culture a year later.

There was no evidence that the girls' engagement with princess culture influenced girls' behavior for the better. Princesses' potential as positive, prosocial role models is limited.

While these findings are unsurprising to princess culture's critics, it is useful to have new data that validate these concerns from a different methodological approach. "The big contribution this study makes is that we actually have data now," Coyne says. "We've been talking about princesses for a long time, and there's been all kinds of speculation." While other studies (such as my own) have examined princess culture's failings from a qualitative, ethnographic, interview-based perspective, Coyne's study is unusual for collecting longitudinal, measurable, controlled data on 198 children.

The study did offer some tentative, good news to parents. First, engaging with princess culture seemed to have positive effects on boys, counterbalancing some of the stereotypically aggressive messages found in media targeting male children.

And it found that viewing princess films did not seem to harm girls' body image during the one-year time frame researchers tracked. They found that most girls had "very positive" body images at the study's beginning and conclusion alike. This may come as a relief to parents worried about the idealized, homogeneous and largely unattainable body type of Disney's princesses.

Based on previous literature about the onset of body image issues in pre-adolescent and adolescent girls, the authors caution that if they were to follow the girls over a longer period of time, they might find negative effects. For this reason, Coyne would like to conduct a follow-up study with her participants in five years: "We kind of caught them at the age where all of them felt great about their body, and I'd like to see if that pans out long term."

Another confusing finding: The authors found that girls were more stereotypically feminine in their behavior (considered a negative outcome of princess culture) if their parents reported talking about media with them. This is perplexing, as the research on parental mediation demonstrates that children benefit when they and their parents discuss media together.

But the researchers didn't ask parents what they discussed about the media with their children. Coyne suspects that the parents who participated in the study may have reinforced problematic messages - perhaps praising television characters' physical appearances, for example.

Overall, the "Pretty as a Princess" study makes good use of social science methods. It validates long-standing concerns about princess culture while suggesting some positive effects for boys. It also brings much-needed attention to the importance of talking critically with kids about the media they enjoy. If we're careless in our approach, we might unwittingly reinforce the media's harmful messages. But if we're careful, we can help our children become resilient - and that's useful knowledge.

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Why Disney princesses and 'princess culture' are bad for girls

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Fictional princesses are perennial preschool favorites. Since Disney launched its Princess brand in 2000, the Disney Princesses have become ubiquitous, represented in virtually every product category - dolls and dresses, of course, but also even seed packets and grapes. Partly as a result, little girls strongly identify with princess culture, and adults often assume girls naturally love princesses.

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Similar to the other articles and videos, this video talks about how princess culture is hurting young girls. We are teaching young girls about body image, how to behave and what to wear.

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Is Disney Princess Culture Hurting Young Girls?

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Here is my reflection of my research and findings.

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This Video shows the progression of Disney movies, characters and gender roles. Thankfully, The princesses have shifted from focusing on how they look, being super feminine and waiting for prince charming to save them to make life better. Todays Disney princesses such as Elsa and Moana teach girls about empowerment and being strong. Disney is slowly shifting towards female empowerment and moving away from stereotypical roles. This could help young girls today when dealing with the pressures of society and how they should look and act. They are starting their early childhood with strong and empowering princesses/ Disney characters.

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Progression of Disney Gender Roles - Renegade Cut