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(redirected from Male gaze)

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Whereas traditional, male-oriented pornography treats women as objects and men as subjects, for-women pornography is intended to afford women the subject role as spectator and men the object role as target of female gaze (Goddard, 2000; Schauer, 2005), analogous to the male gaze that characterizes most cinema (Mulvey, 1975), as well as women's ordinary interaction with men (Calogero, 2004; Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997).
In the second part of the chapter, Faulkner discusses the film and television adaptations--(Gonzalo Suarez 1974, Mendez Leite 1995)--of Clarin's La Regenta by focusing on feminist readings on patriarchal power, gender relations and the male gaze.
Maybe there's a fear that Titian's sumptuous display of nymphs is a bit of an orgy for the male gaze.
 
 
 
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