ying on men's power, they would also place themselves in the same position in order to receive rewards in reality. However, modern women are taught by Mulan to be professional and to use their own power to solve problems. In this way, Disney fairy tales construct the conception of femininity that brings women into their gender roles in society.
             .Early Disney Fairy tales promote the already ossified gender structure by pushing women to be dependent housewife-mothers. According to Devor, the patriarchal gender schema that is used to support the mode of breadwinner husband and housewife states that "the social position of females is biologically mandated to be intertwined with...a 'natural' dependency on men for the maintenance of mother-child unit" (Devor, 532). Thus, it suggests a fixed gender structure in which men are naturally associated with power, wealth, wisdom and social status, and women, who do not possess any of these characteristics by themselves, express themselves by showing weakness and dependence and thus a
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