Welcome to the class blog for Spring 2014 Gender, Sexuality, and Media at Queens College/CUNY. This blog is a collaboration between the instructor and students. We'll post and comment on various topics from key theoretical concepts in critical gender theory to queer theory and media matters. This is a space of speculation.
When I think of the Male Gaze, I wonder how it has affected women. Not so much as the object of it, but in the sense that as women were given more rights as humans, and more freedom to do as they pleased they also only watched and saw media which looked through the Male Gaze. Women were shown women as objects, and as that's how media was that's how they viewed it. I wonder how this has affected the idea of what a women is, or is "supposed" to be?
When I think of the Male Gaze, I wonder how it has affected women. Not so much as the object of it, but in the sense that as women were given more rights as humans, and more freedom to do as they pleased they also only watched and saw media which looked through the Male Gaze. Women were shown women as objects, and as that's how media was that's how they viewed it. I wonder how this has affected the idea of what a women is, or is "supposed" to be?
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