daughter-mother relationships, with the mature adversary acting as a wicked maternal substitute, simultaneously erasing the mother and replacing her with a negative image” (Do Rozario, 2004, p.41). This could suggest that once the evil femme fatale has been stripped of her powers, her importance is diminished and a prince has replaced her in the princesses' lives. This results in the princess still being passive but now under the control of a prince rather than the powerful evil stepmother. To juxtapose the tall and powerful appearance of the Evil Queen, Snow White has a slim hourglass figure with pale skin and a petite frame. Likewise, the contrast between Cinderella and Aurora in relation to their maleficent significant other further reinforces the message of good versus evil which allows the audience to side with good rather than evil. Both Cinderella and Aurora are depicted as small, beautiful, kind, polite, and innocent women who passively accept their fate. It could be argued that in the first era of Disney films, women were seen as objects rather than human beings. As mentioned, the female protagonist awaits her fate from the prince to experience a happy ending. This shows that women do not need to fend for themselves because someone comes to rescue them, thus reinforcing a stereotype of helplessness. “Since women led the war effort at home and managed entire households and businesses alone, few would readily identify with the passive damsel who waited for her prince” (Stover, 2013, p.2 ). Snow White is a stereotypical housewife, she meets all the dwarves' needs, never complains and remains obedient. Bewitched by the Evil Queen, Prince Charming must kiss her to break the spell and free her from this life. Midway through the article, theorists including historians and scientists began analyzing women based on their appearance and how concepts of femininity had changed over the years. Before this time, trends toward contemporary femininity seemed to embody cultural attitudes regarding adult women. It could be argued that as society's views changed towards women, as they gained independence and attempted to increase equality, that in Sleeping Beauty, Disney attempted to “retain traditional ideals of femininity while speaking to a changing generation” (Stover, C. , 2013, p.2). There is a thirty year gap between the release of Sleeping Beauty in 1959 and the next princess film The Little Mermaid in 1989. Thus, there appears to be a correlation between passive princesses in a time of social upheaval and of changes in favor of women's equality and the absence of women. princess movies.