male gaze
The implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in…The implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.
» She was accustomed to male gazes on her slender, sensual figure.
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1 sensesThe implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.
Examples
1 sentencesShe was accustomed to male gazes on her slender, sensual figure.
Translations
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Coined by John Berger in the 1972 BBC documentary Ways of Seeing, and popularized by LauraCoined by John Berger in the 1972 BBC documentary Ways of Seeing, and popularized by Laura Mulvey in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", published in 1975.
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Forms
plural: male gazes| Singular | male gaze |
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