Beauty & the Beast is Kind of Feminist, But Not in the Way it Thinks

Beauty and the Beast look at a magic book together
Beast shows Belle the most important addition to the new film./Disney
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Sara Tatyana Bernstein
Sara is the co-founder of Dismantle Magazine. You can also find her writing on Longreads, LitHub, Hippocampus, Catapult, The Outline, Racked, BuzzFeed Reader, and more.