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Postfeminist Masculinity: The New Disney Norm?

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  • Michael Macaluso

    (Institute for Educational Initiatives, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA)

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A recent trend in Disney scholarship attends to postfeminist readings of Disney film and media. This paper contributes to that conversation by focusing on the representations of masculinity that accompany postfeminist sensibilities in and through Disney media and its reception. With a sociological focus on postfeminist masculinity, this article reviews several Disney characters to argue for a new model of postfeminist masculinity advanced in recent Disney films, with a particular focus on the Incredibles films, and examines how this representation has been received in popular media.

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  • Michael Macaluso, 2018. "Postfeminist Masculinity: The New Disney Norm?," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(11), pages 1-10, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jscscx:v:7:y:2018:i:11:p:221-:d:180715
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    1. Benjamin Hine & Dawn England & Katie Lopreore & Elizabeth Skora Horgan & Lisa Hartwell, 2018. "The Rise of the Androgynous Princess: Examining Representations of Gender in Prince and Princess Characters of Disney Movies Released 2009–2016," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(12), pages 1-23, November.
    2. Cassandra Primo, 2018. "Balancing Gender and Power: How Disney’s Hercules Fails to Go the Distance," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 7(11), pages 1-13, November.
    3. Lauren Dundes & Madeline Streiff Buitelaar & Zachary Streiff, 2019. "Bad Witches: Gender and the Downfall of Elizabeth Holmes of Theranos and Disney’s Maleficent," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(6), pages 1-17, June.
    4. Pimpatchanok Manaworapong & Neil Evan Jon Anthony Bowen, 2022. "Language, gender, and patriarchy in Mulan: a diachronic analysis of a Disney Princess movie," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 9(1), pages 1-12, December.
    5. Lauren Dundes, 2020. "Elsa as Horse Whisperer in Disney’s Frozen 2 : Opportunity “Nokk”s to Quash Gender Stereotypes," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 9(5), pages 1-11, May.

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