Dworkin discusses the roles that men and women play in western fairly tales and their implications. for example, she identities that females are particular desirable when they are sleeping (some like snow white and sleeping beauty are practically comatose), She also points out that good men are likely to fall under the influence of powerful female and harm their children. (E.g. Hansel and Gretel). Woodworking states; 'The good women must be possessed. the bad women must be killed, or punished. Both must be nullified.'
Laura Mulvey; Male Gaze
Mulvey argues that women are objectified in film. She presents the theory that Hollywood cinema (mainly referring to films of the 1940s-'60s) functions as a tool for maintaining patriarchal ideologies. (Men do the watching and women are watched, to over simplify it.)
Naomi Wolf; The Beauty Myth
Naomi Wolf argues that beauty is 'last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact'. Somehow women have been sold the idea that to be beautiful they have to look a certain way. Wolf argues that normative standards of beauty are patriarchal social construct, and women are controlled and limited by them. She states that this standard of beauty has taken over the work of social coercion formerly left to myths about motherhood, domesticity, chastity and passivity, all of which have been used to keep women powerless.
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