female gaze

female gaze

the proposed creation of a counterpoint to the predominance of a ‘male GAZE’ in narrative cinema and western popular culture (Laura Mulvey 1975), in which women appear, for example, as sex objects. It was John Berger, the art historian, who said, ‘men look, women appear’. The proposal of Mulvey and others is that an objectification of women will only be overcome if women gain more control of the production of visual popular culture.