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 Catapult, The Outline, Racked, BuzzFeed Reader, and more. Most of her work is about everyday fashion and consumer culture, with forays into pop culture, higher ed, and labor.