Representation of feminism

Happens at both a structural level and a textual level

Radical and reactionary

Toril Moi:

• Feminist – A political position
• Female – A matter of biology
• Feminine -A set of culturally defined characteristics

Laura Mulvey – Visual pleasure and narrative cinema

• Visual pleasure
• Signs of visual pleasure
• The male gaze
• Woman as image, Man bearer of the looks
• ‘The pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female
• Scopophilia – taking people as objects and subjecting them to a controlling and subjective gaze.

Raunch Culture

• Performers believe they are powerful owners of their own sexuality.