representation: feminist critical thinking

• structural (organisations)
• textual (individual images, films)
• Radical and reactionary

Toril Moi’s

• 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
• “the woman is seen as image and the man as the bearer of the look”
• The male gaze
• A world ordered by sexual imbalance
• Concept of scopophilia (looking)
• Vouyerism ( sexual pleasure gained in looking)
• Fetishism ( a cut out styled fragment)

Jacques lacan- This mirror moment

• Highlighting the “mirror stage” of child development
• ” A complex process of likeness and difference”

Feminism

• First wave of feminism- suffragettes
• Second wave of feminism- 60s society structured around men
• Third wave of feminism- younger women
• Fourth Wave of feminism- intersectionality, plurality

Raunch Culture

• Is the suxualised performance of women in the media that can play into male stereotypes of women as highly sexually available, where its performers believe they are powerful owners of their own sexuality

Intersectionality- Queer Theory

• Different experiences due to differences of identity