Beyond 'Happily Ever After'

violence against women and the possibilities of self-emancipation in Beauty and the beast

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22484/2177-5788.2025v51id5786

Keywords:

violence against women, Beauty and the beast, Gender performativity

Abstract

This article uses the ideas of Judith Butler (2019), Lourdes Maria Bandeira (2014), Nancy Fraser (2019), Flávia Biroli (2012) and Marielle Macé (2019) to analyze the performativities of Bela and the two main male characters in the feature film Beauty and the Beast (1991), with a view to understanding and observing which regulatory norms are reinforced or challenged in the narrative. In this way, the production aims to advance on the discussions presented in previous work carried out by the same authors. It also seeks to go further, making approximations with the cycle of domestic violence to understand whether the vision proposed in the narrative of Bela's experience confuses girls and women when it comes to identifying toxic relationships and imagining ways of self-emancipation in female friendship for the protagonist based on the reflections proposed by Marilda Ionta.

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Author Biographies

  • Angela Cristina Salgueiro Marques, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Associate Professor in the Department of Social Communication at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Social Communication at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. PhD in Social Communication from the same institution.

  • Laura Adler Lara de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Graduated in Journalism from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Currently, a master's student in the Postgraduate Program in Social Communication at the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais with an emphasis on Communication, Territorialities and Vulnerabilities. She has a scholarship from the Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq) and the Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES).

  • Amanda Mota de Oliveira, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

    Graduated in Psychology from PUC Minas (2023) and in Journalism from Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2023). Currently a master's student in the Postgraduate Program in Psychology: Cognition and Behavior at Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (2024), with an emphasis on Developmental Neuropsychology. Member of the Memory and Cognition Research Group (GPMC - UFMG).

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Published

2025-12-22

Issue

Vol. 51 (2025)

Section

DOSSIÊ CULTURA MIDIÁTICA E CRÍTICA DA VIOLÊNCIA: DENÚNCIA, RESISTÊNCIA E EMANCIPAÇÃO

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Beyond ’Happily Ever After’: violence against women and the possibilities of self-emancipation in Beauty and the beast. Journal of University Studies, Sorocaba, SP, v. 51, p. e025017, 2025. DOI: 10.22484/2177-5788.2025v51id5786. Disponível em: https://periodicos.uniso.br/reu/article/view/5786. Acesso em: 20 aug. 2026.