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Gaze

The gaze (French: le regard), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. Since the 20th century, the concept and the social applications of the gaze have been expanded by phenomenologist, existentialist, and post-structuralist philosophers. Jean-Paul Sartre described…

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Systems of power

Marita SturkenLisa CartwrightPanopticismPower/knowledgeBiopower
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Male gaze

John BergerWays of SeeingBBCLaura MulveyVoyeurism
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Oppositional gaze

Bell hooks(male) gazeMammyJezebelSapphire
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Psychoanalysis

LacanMirror stageReality
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Psychoanalysis

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Male gaze

Female gaze

Imperial gaze

White gaze

Oppositional gaze

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Gaze

Nodes57
Edges56
Triples224
Avg. degree1.96
Density0.035088
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related to Further reading · 105
Gaze → Armstrong, Arts, Blackwell, Bracha, Carol, Catherine, Ch, Christianity, Co, Consumer Research, Consuming Representation, Critical Theory, Culture, Dino, Edited, Education, Ettinger, Eva-Maria, Felluga, Female Gaze
related to Systems of power · 23
Gaze → An Introduction, Between Foucault, Clinic, Foucault, Foucault's, In, In Discipline, In Practices, In The Birth, Lisa Cartwright, Looking, Marita Sturken, Merleau-Ponty, Merleau-Ponty's, Michel Foucault, Nick Crossley, Panoptic, Panopticon, Prison, Punish
related to Male gaze · 21
Gaze → BBC, Berger, British, English, Essentially, European, Foucault, Furthermore, He, Hollywood, In, January, John Berger, Laura Mulvey, Mulvey, Narrative Cinema, Seeing, The, This, Visual Pleasure
related to Oppositional gaze · 12
Gaze → As Mulvey's, Black, Black Female Spectatorship, In, Jezebel, Laura Mulvey's, Mammy, Sapphire, The, The Oppositional Gaze, This, Western
related to External links · 10
Gaze → Fenêtres, Male Gaze Archived, Notes, Oblique, Ron Padova, Soul, The GazeRobert Doisneau, Un, Wayback Machine, Windows
related to Objectifying gaze · 10
Gaze → According, Barbara Fredrickson, Due, Fredrickson, Interpersonal, Objectification, Roberts, Stripping, The, Tomi-Ann Roberts
related to Female gaze · 9
Gaze → Deborah Kampmeier, Film, Gender Trouble, In, In Judith Butler's, It's, Laura Mulvey, She, The
related to Psychoanalysis · 9
Gaze → In, In Lacanian, Initially, Lacan, Lacan's, More, The, Theoretically, This
related to Postcolonial gaze · 6
Gaze → Edward Said, First, In, Placing, The, Utilizing
related to Imperial gaze · 4
Gaze → Ann Kaplan, From, Kaplan, The

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female theory concept social male objectifying power women objectification white visual media lacan mulvey culture object also external occurs one

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Gazeis aloss of autonomy upon becoming aware that they are a visible object0.90text
Gazeis aassumption that the default reader or observer is coming from a perspective of someone who identifies themselves as white0.90text
parentsinstance ofThe role of the ideal ego or self can also be filled by other people in their lives0.80text
siblingsinstance ofThe role of the ideal ego or self can also be filled by other people in their lives0.80text
teachers etc.In his later essays howeverinstance ofThe role of the ideal ego or self can also be filled by other people in their lives0.80text
Lacan refers to the gaze as the anxious feeling that one is being watchedinstance ofThe role of the ideal ego or self can also be filled by other people in their lives0.80text
advertisements which depict social situations in itselfinstance ofThe first occurs in media outlets0.80text
and the second occurs in media platforms such as social media in which bodies/body parts can be put on displayinstance ofThe first occurs in media outlets0.80text
youthinstance ofThrough these influences female characteristics0.80text
beautyinstance ofThrough these influences female characteristics0.80text
sexualityinstance ofThrough these influences female characteristics0.80text
or the possession of a man are desirable while the prevalence of stereotypes consisting of submissiveinstance ofThrough these influences female characteristics0.80text

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