Postfeminist Masculinity: The New Disney Norm?

Michael Macaluso
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Michael Macaluso: Institute for Educational Initiatives, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN 46556, USA

Social Sciences, 2018, vol. 7, issue 11, 1-10

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Disney; postfeminism; masculinity; gender; cultural studies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A B N P Y80 Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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