Sleeping Beauty

Episode Summary


Can a film with a female protagonist who sleeps more than
anything else be considered “feminist”? Erin and Rachel wrestle
with this question and more as they discuss Sleeping
Beauty (1959), Disney’s third and final princess film until
the Disney Renaissance thirty years later. 


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