Gender Stereotypes in Fairy Tales

Fairy tales have existed for generations. Our parents tell us these stories and we finally hand them over to us. In this era, the most common fairy tales are Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty, Beauty and Beast. Children pretend that they were in the story, praise their favorite characters, impersonate them. Character's behavior is what society thinks is appropriate. These fairy tales show that girls and boys fall in love and "live forever".

This research aims to discover the effects of fairy tales on young adult men exposed to fairy tales, especially fairy tales with the princess themed themes, to decide which gender fixed ideas were conceptualized and the role of sex in that fairy tale did. watch. This research is also aimed at judging whether feminism affects stereotypes created by changing fairy tales. In addition, many feminist studies focus more on women's reactions and opinions on fairy tales, most of them are theoretical. Previously, there were two studies on the impact of fairy tales on people: a 1985 study of Kay F. Stone (including women, children, male samples) and Rita Comtois' 1995 study (eg women only use).

Many feminist fairy tale studies focus on female gender stereotypes of fairy tales such as Bottigheimer (1987), Stone (1985), Comtois (1995), Baker-Sperry and Grauerholz (2005). so. . Some studies focused on the adverse effects of fairy tales, such as Stone's 1985 study, "Enchantment Abuse: Discussion on the Importance of Fairy Tales". According to Stone (1985), a young woman has a stereotype since childhood, but these young girls are likely to enter young people, so there is a stereotype of gender that existed as a child continue. Negative impact Recognition of the role of gender, even confidence and self image