–Koushik, Kailash, and Abigail Reed. “Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Beauty and the Beast,
and Disney’s Commodification of Feminism: A Political Economic Analysis.” MDPI, Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 15 Nov. 2018, www.mdpi.com/2076-0760/7/11/237/htm.
This article reveals that Disney saw the trend of females coming forward to reveal that harassment is everywhere, and Disney utilizes the name of feminism to attract audiences and make money out of it. The movie “Beauty and the Beast” is the technique that Disney shapes itself as a producer that values females. This article gives some background information and it is related to the feminist movement. “The movie portrays Belle working with her father in his workshop, displaying her knowledge in technology, by providing the tools her father needs even before her father realizes he needs them” (page 11).

–Korneeva, Tatiana Korneeva. “Desire and Desirability in Villeneuve and Leprince De Beaumont’s ‘Beauty and the Beast.’” EBSCOhost, 2014, web.a.ebscohost.com.ez-proxy.brooklyn.cuny.edu:2048/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=1&sid=aff6a150-d968-4026-a1dc-9c91289fc3c3%40sdc-v-sessmgr01.
This article is talking about the first version of Beauty and the Beast, it was written by Marie-Jeanne Leprince de Beaumont, and she wrote moral tales, the purpose of this is to let young girls learn from the book, which is also her target readers. “Writing almost exclusively for a young female audience, Beaumont was especially concerned with guiding them through the conduct of courtship, marriage, and family relationships”( page 2).

–Gray, Emma. “How Disney Subtly Made ‘Beauty And The Beast’ More Feminist.” HuffPost, HuffPost, 20 Mar. 2017, www.huffpost.com/entry/how-disney-subtly-made-beauty-and-the-beast-more-feminist_n_58cfd97ce4b0ec9d29dd676f.
This reading is analyzing the movie beauty and the beast, Gray said that this movie is different than the other princess series of Disney, and she said, “The new film goes to great lengths to demonstrate Belle’s agency in every part of the story, amplifying things that are only subtly touched on in the animated version, and in some cases, creating totally new pieces of plot”. Which is saying that the new version is more detailed and the power of feminism is shown in the movie.

–Ross, Ashley. “Beauty and the Beast’s Feminist Side Goes Beyond Emma Watson.” Time, Time, 16 Mar. 2017, time.com/4696792/beauty-beast-history-feminism/.
Ross addressed that when people who only ever see the animated Disney version, he or she might think that the moral of this movie is not to judge people by how they look, but there is a deeper meaning of this movie, which is feminism. And she also gives a touch of the background history of this movie. A quote from this reading is the last paragraph “Feminism is about giving women choice,” she said. “It’s about liberation, it’s about equality.”

–abbybled, Posted. Feminist Empowerment in “Beauty and the Beast:” An Analysis of Beauty’s Feminist Qualities from 1740 to 2017, 6 Oct. 2017, fttv.byu.edu/2017/08/15/feminist-empowerment-in-beauty-and-the-beast-an-analysis-of-beautys-feminist-qualities-from-1740-to-2017/.
This reading is another analysis of Beauty’s Feminist Qualities, she talks about the origin of Beauty and the beast in the 18th century, and this literature primarily shows a narrative with increasing female passivity and domestic encirclement. she also talks about the author of the 18th century’s version, when Beaumont was young, she was subject to an arranged marriage, when she wrote this book, she was alluding to social changes in the 18th century, and “this book became the representative of a female quest for the self in a repressive world” (abby bled).