Using Disney to teach gender stereotypes

[Kaylee Campbell]

Does anyone use Disney to teach gender stereotypes and roles?  If so, how do you introduce this topic?  What activities do you do, besides analyzing character appearance and attitudes?

[Hilary Hughes]

Henry Giroux is a great one for Disney exploration--this is a long website, sorry. I hope you can copy/paste it. If not, just Google Henry Giroux Disney

http://www.epinions.com/review/The_Mouse_That_Roared_Disney_and_the...

[Ryan Goble]

Just some seeds for teaching ideas - see ARTICLE: Code Pink, "What’s Wrong With Cinderella?" from the NYTimes - this went on to become the awesome book Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the ..., Disney Characters Come To Life (btw - super creepy to me), Disney Princesses as Magazine Covers and
Using film trailers in Literacy, Disney's Brave

[Alex Peterson]

Do you know about the MEF film "Mickey Mouse Monopoly"?  It explores this very topic. 

http://www.mediaed.org/cgi-bin/commerce.cgi?preadd=action&key=112

You can also download the free accompanying discussion guide that has a lot of questions and suggested assignments to explore this issue. http://www.mediaed.org/assets/products/112/studyguide_112.pdf