SOCIOLOGY OF DISNEY , AND SOCIOLOGY OF GENDER : NEW MODELS OF YOUNG FEMININITIES , AND YOUNG MASCULINITIES IN DISNEY MOVIES, IN RELATION TO ANIMATED DISNEY ANIMALS

Abstract

"Contemporary research on girlhood has shown that there are different ways of being a girl. There are multiple ways of living femininity and identifying with femininity" (Kehily 2007: 35). Postfeminist masculinities, accordingly, are developing inside the feminist idea of gender roles division, and become a progressive, and new Disney model of masculinities( Macaluso 2018:1-4). Young Femininity in Disney animated movies, are influenced by waves of feminism, there are differences between the roles of Disney's female characters, from the 1937s onwards, compared to its contemporary heroines (Merida, Mulan, Moana). The idea of femininity as Disney's transfixion into feminism, in the era of post-feminism, influences gender equality to become representative in the media. Sociology of Disney, as one of the new sub disciplines in sociology, with Sociology of Disney animated movies, Sociology of Disney parks, with the Disneyization of Sociology, is useful strategy of analysis the gender role, and the socialisation, with the Animal Sociology analysis of animated Disney animals, for the Sociology of gender classes.