Narrative der Essstörung im Zeitgenössischen Film und Roman: Simón Bross' Malos hábitos (2007) und Nina Bouraouis La voyeuse interdite (1991)

2021 ◽  
Vol 133 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-341
Author(s):  
Claudia Jacobi
Keyword(s):  
Male Gaze ◽  
Cuerpo Femenino

En el cine contemporáneo y en la literatura narrativa de los países de lengua románica se encuentra una multitud de obras en las cuales los trastornos alimenticios no sólo representan una adecuación exagerada a los dictados contemporáneos de belleza, sino también una metáfora sociocultural que visualiza las disfunciones de la sociedad actual a través del cuerpo femenino. El análisis de la película Malos hábitos (2007) del director mejicano Simón Bross y de la novela La voyeuse interdite (1991) de la autora franco-argelina Nina Bou- raoui demuestra que la sumisión del cuerpo femenino a los ideales desinhibidos de belleza occidental (Bross) y a las normas púdicas de un Islam fundamentalista (Bouraoui) representan la dependencia de la mujer con respecto al poder de la mirada masculina (male gaze), transformando el cuerpo femenino en un espacio de proyección de las jerarquías sociales . Ante la idea ampliamente difundida del Islam como ’lo otro‘, criticado particularmente por su ’concepción atrasada‘ en cuanto al papel de la mujer, la comparación demuestra que la hipersexualización occidental y la tabuización integrista del cuerpo femenino son dos caras de la misma moneda, que reduce a la mujer – de manera desconcertantemente similar – al estado de objeto sexual.

Taxi! The Modern Taxicab as Feminist Heterotopia

2014 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 213-232
Author(s):  
Anne E. Fernald
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Maximum Power ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Real Place ◽  
Critical Relation ◽  
Transitional Mode ◽  
Mode Of Transport ◽  
Woman's Body

The taxicab operated as a crucial transitional mode of transport for bourgeois women, allowing them maximum power as spectators when it was still brave for a woman to be a pedestrian. The writings of Virginia Woolf, which so often depict bourgeois women coping with modernity, form the chief context in which to explore the role of the taxicab in liberating the modern woman. The taxi itself, clumsy and ungendered, encases a woman's body and protects her from the male gaze. At the same time, a woman in a taxi can look out upon the street or freely ignore it. As such, the taxi is a type of heterotopia: a real place but one which functions outside of and in a critical relation to, the norms of the rest of the community.

Light and Sensitivity: Love in the Time of the Daguerreotype

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katarzyna Czeczot
Keyword(s):  
Male Gaze ◽  
History Of Photography ◽  
Sensitive Material ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
Point Of Departure ◽  
Passive Object

The article deals with the love of Zygmunt Krasiński to Delfina Potocka. The point of departure is the poet's definition of love as looking and reads Krasiński's relationship with his beloved in the context of two phenomena that fascinated him at the time: daguerreotype and magnetism. The invention of the daguerreotype in which the history of photography and spiritism comes together becomes a pretext for the formulation of a new concept of love and the loving subject. In the era of painting the woman was treated as a passive object of the male gaze; photography reverses this scheme of power. Love ceases to be a static relationship of the subject in love and the passive object – the beloved. The philosophy of developing photographs (and invoking phantoms) allows Krasiński - the writing subject to become like a light-sensitive material that reveals the image of the beloved.

Seeking the historical listener

Early Music ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Plank
Keyword(s):  
William Shakespeare ◽  
Early Modern ◽  
Performance Practice ◽  
Affective Response ◽  
Source Material ◽  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Queen Elizabeth I ◽  
Focus Questions ◽  
Robert Herrick

Abstract This article considers questions relating to the performance practice of listening to music in early modern contexts. The evidence of paintings by Pieter Lastman, Gerard ter Borch and Hendrik Sorgh, poetry by Robert Herrick, William Shakespeare and Edmund Waller, and accounts of performances by Francesco da Milano, Nicola Matteis and Queen Elizabeth I all help to bring into focus questions of attentiveness, affective response and analogical understanding. The source material also interestingly raises the possibility of occasionally understanding the act of listening within a frame of erotic relationship modelled on Laura Mulvey’s well-known concept of the ‘male gaze’.

The Female Dancer and the Male Gaze

1997 ◽  
pp. 153-166 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susan Manning
Keyword(s):  
Male Gaze

scholarly journals Ched Evans, rape myths and Medusa's gaze: a story of mirrors and windows

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 454-468
Author(s):  
David Gurnham
Keyword(s):  
Criminal Justice ◽  
Sexual Assault ◽  
Sexual Activity ◽  
Rape Myths ◽  
Social World ◽  
Male Gaze ◽  
Visual Metaphor ◽  
Critical Scholarship ◽  
Alternative Approach ◽  
Court Of Appeal

AbstractThis paper analyses the visualisation of rape and sexual assault in legal and scholarly language. It begins with a critique of the Court of Appeal ruling inR v. Evans (Chedwyn)and its forensic examination of the details of a female rape complainant's consensual sexual activity with other men. The case is analysed in light of a visual metaphor used by Ellison and Munro to describe the removal of popular misconceptions about rape. The paper contextualises that discussion with reference to the idea of the male gaze and its affirmation of a phallocentric cultural and social world in which the objectification of female difference is entrenched. The paper finally challenges that assessment, however, sketching an alternative approach to visual-critical scholarship that embraces interdisciplinarity and a literary sensibility to break (or at least to loosen) the association between the prurient eye of the male voyeur and the criminal justice gaze.

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