I produced a school based game which incorporates violence. My main character is a women in power who has control. I labelled her as this as it is not stereotypical as she’s not presented as a ‘damsel in destress’

Further to this I have enlarged her breasts and singed in her waist leading to more attention on the buttocks which is the stereotypical idea of a women’s body. In some ways this inverts Laura Mulvey’s notion of the male gaze in that my main character is there to be objectified and looked at, in the words of Laura Mulvey she is a character “establishing ways of looking and spectacle”. However, the notion of the male gaze is quite distinct as it relates to the sexualisation of the dominant signifier.