male gaze

[ meyl geyz ]

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noun

Often the male gaze. the assumption in visual and creative arts that the default or desired audience consists of heterosexual males, and inclusion of women in narrative or art should seek to please this audience with the objectification or sexualization of these depicted women.

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Word History and Origins

Coined by Laura Mulvey (born 1941), British feminist film theorist in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975)

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The only way to get somewhere in life was to please the male gaze as an object of desire, to give birth, and have sex.

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With an unabashed sexual predator in the White House, amid the social upheaval of #MeToo, full-coverage clothing became a kind of armor, worn in comfort, indifferent to the male gaze and traditional notions of sex appeal.

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“It’s very uncommon for a film to not have a male gaze.”

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Instead, given the sculptural tradition of heroic men posed against a pedestal, and as a flip of the male gaze, she wanted “Strut” to re-examine men’s bodies and their positions of power.

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It had no male gaze involved in it.

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Malegaon maleic acid

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