“Princesses were mostly absent from my childhood,” writes Nathalia Holt in “The Queens of Animation,” a new book about Disney’s early female artists. “Until I began writing this book, I viewed the Disney princesses, with their fluffy dresses and vulnerable demeanors, warily, suspicious that they had been dropped into my life by unknown misogynistic forces that were bent on turning my daughters into boy-crazy women.”
In researching the book, Holt says she found misogyny, both within the Disney studio and beyond, but also an inspiring sisterhood of female artists whose work left an indelible influence on the great animated features of the mid-20th century and beyond.
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