LEARNING HETERONORMATIVITY IN TOY STORY

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to analyze the Toy Story trilogy focusing on discussions of the concept of heteronormativity. Methodologically, it adopts a post-critical perspective in order to analyze issues of body, gender and sexuality within the films, released in 1995, 1999 and 2010. The trilogy presents naturalization of male and female behaviors, according to accepted social standards, marking a pattern of gender behavior that spans from the separation of boys and girls’ toys up to the gender roles assigned to men and women. It is possible to perceive in the movies that behaviors that transgress heterosexual norms are pointed out and censored, thus denying different ways of constituting identities.