Animated Children’s Films: The Evolution of the Disney Villainess

The Wicked Queen This is a guest review by Rebecca Cohen.  I’m not the first to note that the female protagonists of Disney animated features tend not to have mothers. When adult women do appear, they are evil wicked stepmothers, as in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Cinderella, or evil sorceresses, as in … Continue reading Animated Children’s Films: The Evolution of the Disney Villainess