male gaze Concepts

The Passenger: Paris

by AA.VV. · 26 Jun 2021 · 199pp · 62,204 words

intellectual justification. You assure the customer that they will be both feminine and feminist; on point, engaged but not losing the ability to pull the male gaze. That is why over the years intellectual prowess has been highly prized in the world of advertising: Leïla Slimani, author and Goncourt Prize-winner, makes

New Laws of Robotics: Defending Human Expertise in the Age of AI

by Frank Pasquale · 14 May 2020 · 1,172pp · 114,305 words

of bland neoliberal managerialism, an assumption that observations that are not comparable and computable are not as valuable as those that are. Like the instrumentalizing “male gaze” critiqued by feminists, a “data gaze” now threatens misrecognition and reification.87 Unmoored from some concrete sense of meaning and purpose, the data gaze undermines

Half Empty

by David Rakoff · 20 Sep 2010 · 181pp · 62,775 words

of our richly colored tapestry of human libido, where anything goes. Freedom of Expression, as advertised. There is an extravaganza of women exposed to the male gaze, for sure, but beyond that, anything most emphatically does not go. There is nary a nod to female desire, and as for deviations farther afield

The No Need to Diet Book: Become a Diet Rebel and Make Friends With Food

by Plantbased Pixie · 7 Mar 2019 · 299pp · 81,377 words

our culture women are constantly looked at, assessed and objectified. What is deemed to be feminine and attractive is what gains the approval of the male gaze – a focus on the body as an object to be admired. This regular objectification can lead to a process called self-objectification, whereby women internalise

My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel

by Ottessa Moshfegh · 9 Jul 2018 · 217pp · 69,892 words

was I was feeling. I could remember all of this, each sniveling, pouty face in that classroom. One idiot said I was “broken by the male gaze.” I remembered the tick of the clock as they stared. “I guess that’s enough,” said the professor, finally. I was permitted to take my

Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

by Kyle Chayka · 15 Jan 2024 · 321pp · 105,480 words

of Dragonball I progressed, thanks to forum recommendations, to still-cringey romantic-comedy anime titles like Love Hina and Chobits. These were overindulgent of the male gaze (another term for the genre was “harem anime”) but felt novel to me at the time, with their interpersonal dramas and sci-fi tropes. I

At the Existentialist Café: Freedom, Being, and Apricot Cocktails With Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone De Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Others

by Sarah Bakewell · 1 Mar 2016 · 483pp · 144,957 words

, with ‘man’ and ‘he’ being the default terms in French as in English. Women try constantly to picture themselves as they would look to a male gaze. Instead of looking out to the world as it presents itself to them (like the person peering through the keyhole) they maintain a point of

On Bicycles: A 200-Year History of Cycling in New York City

by Evan Friss · 6 May 2019 · 314pp · 85,637 words

” as one historian put it, did so “as either endangered or dangerous women.” On bicycles, women were even more visible, even more subject to the male gaze; but they also could disappear out of sight. One woman was so worried that she launched a full-fledged antibicycle crusade in hopes of removing

This Chair Rocks: A Manifiesto Against Ageism

by Ashton Applewhite · 10 Feb 2016 · 312pp · 84,421 words

Greer was just one of many feminists to call for women to celebrate old age as a time of liberation from the tyranny of the male gaze and the “shackles of sexuality.”22 Opting out can bring comfort, peace, and more time and energy to devote to people and pursuits that matter

All That Glitters: A Story of Friendship, Fraud, and Fine Art

by Orlando Whitfield · 5 Aug 2024 · 306pp · 104,072 words

Germany) and a smattering of continental and homegrown nobility. In a lecture early in the first term we were discussing the feminist concept of the male gaze when one of the posh young ladies arrived late. The lecturer did the whole nice-of-you-to-join-us routine and told her what