Gender_Stereotyping

Gender Stereotyping Gender Stereotyping in Children’s Literature In order to complete this assignment, four children’s books were chosen and read. Snow White and Sleeping Beauty were chosen to represent traditional children’s literature with The Prince of Egypt and Pocahontas representing contemporary children’s literature. The stories of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty have very similar plots. In both stories, the main character, an attractive young female, encounters a dilemma and must wait for the strapping prince charming to arrive and undo the damage. In Snow White, she is awoken from an evil spell by a kiss from price charming. In Sleeping Beauty, her male companion, Price Phillip, must also awake her from a deep sleep. Both of these stories show a female in distress with her only hope of success coming from a male. These classic stories contribute to the classic stereotyping of females being dependent on males. Not only do they lack reality, but also they do not provide adequate role models for young girls. These two stories are examples of perfect fairytales where the male rescues the female and then they live happily ever after. Aside from the fairytale element, these stories white, female, story, pocahontas, stories, male, children’s, snow, prince, literature, sleeping, beauty, another, traditional, spell, princess, price, must, men, issues, examples, egypt, contemporary, companion, classic, characters, character, both, being, aurora, after, young, work, women, two