ewarded by fortune and status. In "Disney's Mulan--the 'True' Deconstructed Heroine?", Lisa Brocklebank mentions that Snow White was produced in the 1950's when the vision of a traditional family headed by a dominant breadwinner-father and a dependent housewife-mother was popular in American society (5). Thus the heroine acquires love and material gains by being passive, dependent and good at household works. However, by the time Mulan was produced in 1998, the social condition changed as more and more women entered the workplace and occupied the former males' role of breadwinners of their families. Thus, Disney producers updated their traditional gender portrayal by producing Mulan, a girl who can speak her own mind and surpass men in intelligence, courage and skills. She gets respect and honor by entering the men's world and challenging men's superiority.
             Because Disney movies express the gender roles of the time, Disney heroines become "not simple animated [figures], but [models] which real women strove to emulate" (Brocklebank, 4). Their experiences show the social standard of which behavior is approved for women and thus strengthen female roles in real life. As it was mentioned previously, Devor believes that gender behaviors are not innate. Instead, young people learn to behave manly or womanly by "[absorbing] the generalized standards of society into their own personal concept of what is correct behavior" (Devor, 530). Therefore, they can be said to hold the attitude of the "generalized others" which "functions as a sort of monitoring or measuring devices with which individuals may judge their own actions against those of their generalized conceptions of how members of society are expected to act" (Devor, 530). This monitoring device is the reward system in Disney fairy tales. When women in the fifties saw that Snow White obtains happy life by rel...