Not Your Beauty (student art)

Not Your Beauty, art by Madeleine Jenness, shows a broken glass bell jar with a rose inside, on a wooden base with a dagger and red drops dripping off the edge

This piece envisions what Beauty and the Beast would have been like had Belle been empowered by feminism. It breaks the expectation of docility imposed upon women, and the trope of complacency seen in some Disney princesses. Belle takes violent action to change her situation, rather than being complacent.

Madeleine Jenness (she/her/hers)
University of Washington Bothell, second year
Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies major

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Persistence is Resistance: Celebrating 50 Years of Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies Copyright © 2020 by Julie Shayne is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, except where otherwise noted.

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