Representation: The female form

Structural level and textual level – individual images

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. The signs of visual please and the male gaze. Women as an image and the male as the bearer of the look. Pleasure in looking has been split between active male/ passive female. Scopophiloia is the natural pleasure in looking, Vouyerism is the sexual pleasure gained in looking.

Raunch Culture – The sexualised performance of women in the media