GEN&SEX 50B Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Lmfao, Human Rights Campaign, Identity Politics
24 Apr 2018
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The term is hard to define because spread of the power causes the inequality(why the word is controversial) 2 -. article example(travel and tourism): on the beach (cynthia enloe): license to travel away from a place thought of as home. /a woman who travels away from the ideological protection of. Home and without the protection of an acceptable male escort is likely to be tarred with the brush of unrespectability . The definition of the male gaze refers to when the male acts and the female appears , or in other words, men are the surveyors and women are being surveyed. It is the idea of women being objectified by men and appearing as passive. This is translated into the representation of women as objects in popular culture such as in films and media. Excerpt from ways of seeing by john berger, many advertisements of women typically consists of them posing passively or looking pretty and pleasing to look at.
