daughter-mother relationships, with the mature adversary acting as an evil 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 was stripped of her powers, her importance was reduced and a prince replaced her in the princesses' lives. This results in the princess still being passive but now under the control of a prince rather than her powerful evil stepmother. To juxtapose the tall and powerful appearance of the Evil Queen, Snow White has a slender hourglass figure with pale skin and a petite build. Likewise, the contrast between Cinderella and Aurora compared to their other villainess further reinforces the message of good versus evil which allows the audience to take the side of good over evil. Cinderella and Aurora are both portrayed as beautiful women with small waists, kind, polite and innocent who passively accept their fate. It could be argued that in the first era of Disney films, women are seen as objects rather than human beings. As mentioned, the female protagonist awaits her fate from the prince to experience a happy ending. This promotes the fact that women don't need to fend for themselves because of someone coming to save them, reinforcing a helpless stereotype. “As women led the war effort at home and ran entire families and businesses alone, few easily identified with the passive damsel waiting for her prince” (Stover, 2013, p.2). Snow White is a stereotypical housewife, meeting the dwarves' every need, never complaining and remaining obedient. When enchanted by the evil queen, Prince Charming must kiss her to break the spell and free her from this life. Around that time, theorists, including historians and scientists, began analyzing women in terms of their appearance and how concepts of femininity had changed over the years. Before this era, trends toward contemporary femininity seemed to embody cultural attitudes toward adult women. It could be argued that while society's views on women were changing and they were gaining independence and seeking to increase equality, in Sleeping Beauty Disney was attempting to "maintain traditional ideals of femininity while spoke 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 subsequent princess film The Little Mermaid in 1989. There therefore appears to be a correlation between passive princesses during a time of social upheaval and change for the women's equality and the absence of princess films.