There is nothing wrong if a woman wants to look good and spends money and time on it. But when her social assessment based on her ideal looks, perfect make-up or high fashion clothes impairs her selfworth, her physical and mental well-being gets damaged beyond repair. Indubitably, the patriarchy tricks women into thinking about importance of beauty and thinness as criteria of her feminine identity. The agony is aggravated for the women of color who are usually looked down upon when compared to their fair-skinned counterparts. Innumerable critical studies of children’s literature have given the grim statistics which clearly indicate that children of colour especially females who have to fare well in the ideal beauty test are slighted and if not so they are under-represented or misrepresented in literature especially in the most cherished treasure of the children’s literature, i.e. fairy tales. The modern retellings and movie adaptations of the classical fairy tales are entrusted with the task to flood the literary canon with revised versions of classical stories that feature children of colour in positive and favourable light. It is only such progressive re-renderings that can make women of all ages experience the fact that beauty comes from deep within as well as help white children and parents to develop tolerance and respect for children of colour. The present paper is an attempt to find out whether the movie adaptations and modern retellings of the classical fairy tale selected for the study namely, Brothers Grimm’s “Little Snow White” are successful enough to contribute positively to this particular facet

Patriarchy, Beauty Myth, White Privileging, Physical Attractiveness, Liberation