In 1975, film critic Laura Mulvey coined the term 'the male gaze' to describe the representation of women in the visual arts and literature from a male, heterosexual perspective, as personal ...
Can a man produce a fictional account from the perspective of a woman without being crippled by the male gaze? As a male author who writes novels where women feature as protagonists, I find it ...
Mulvey’s notion of the “male gaze” made waves not just in film studies (four members of Screen’s editorial board resigned in protest of it and other psychoanalytic criticism ...