The Question of “Female Gaze”: by Farhana Susmita

“… This paper problematizes the issue of an “active female gaze” as opposed to the passive one determined by the dominant ideological system that produces an “active male gaze” in narratives of cinema and advertisements. …”
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The Blair Witch Project: Metatextual Layers of Subverting the Female Gaze by Emily Moeck

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Traumatic Female Gaze: Julia Pirotte Looking at the Kielce Pogrom by Katarzyna Bojarska

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Manga Cultures and the Female Gaze, by Kathryn Hemmann [book review] by John Francis

“…Manga cultures and the female gaze. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing AG, 2020, paperback, $59.99, (184 p), ISBN 978-3030180973.…”
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Wilkie Collins and Oscar Wilde: Challenging Intersections Between the Male and Female Gaze in Victorian Popular Literature by Leah Henderson

“…In this essay, I will reveal how these authors use the male and female gaze in similar and contrasting ways. In particular, I shall explore the ways they denounce the patriarchal Victorian system, which renders the act of gazing a power that is both objectifying and degrading. …”
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THE LURE OF THE IMAGE KEBOHONGAN PADA NARASI PEREMPUAN DALAM SYNGUE SABOUR PIERRE DE PATIENCE KARYA ATIQ RAHIMI by Yuli Mahmudah Sentana

Subjects: “…woman narration, female gaze, atiq rahimi, patriarchal…”
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In Defense of the Perverse: Reflections on The Sheik (George Melford, 1921) by Elisabetta Girelli

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Le Dernier Duel de Ridley Scott : corps médiévaux à l’épreuve du genre by Caroline Masoch

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Girlhood studies by Kerk Jing Yi

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Charm the Boys, Win the Girls: Power Struggles in Mary Stolz’s Cold War Adolescent Girl Romance Novels by Amanda K. Allen

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Feticism and irony of the pornographic ékphrasis in <i>Lichen</i> by Alice Munro by Beatrice Seligardi

“…On the other hand, the female gaze deconstructs the violence inscribed in the image by using a verbal and rhetorical strategy that operates through irony and epiphany.…”
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Experimental plays, conventional endings: Gender normativity and the female spectator of Shirley’s The Doubtful Heir by Rebecca Yearling

“…Although, as in Twelfth Night, the last act of The Doubtful Heir works to reaffirm traditional gender roles, the effect of this is complicated or problematised by the way in which the play works to frame its hero, Ferdinand, as an object of desire for female spectators, and its encouragement both of the female gaze and of female fantasies of empowerment.…”
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La comédienne dell’arte et son public au XVIIe siècle : un modèle dramaturgique et sa réception by Cécile Berger

“…But the rivalry between actresses is also revealing of a first female gaze that determines the subsequent interpretation and dramatic style of the heiresses. …”
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Representaciones de la violencia contra las mujeres en la serie ARTE H24. 24 horas en la vida de una mujer by Esther Ferrer Rizo, María Pilar Rodríguez Pérez

“…Ofrece una contextualización de la legislación europea y una revisión de conceptos tales como cinematografía alternativa y mirada feminista (female gaze). A través de una serie de indicadores extraídos de las publicaciones más relevantes, permite conocer la forma en que esta serie ofrece modelos innovadores de representación para formas de violencia que, en ocasiones, no se perciben como tales.…”
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Nawab Faizunnesa Chowdhurani’s Rupjalal: by Sonika Islam

“…In a time when the Victorian morality imposed on Indians was trying to ban frank sexual expression in literature, Chowdhurani writes about female sexuality, desire, female gaze, and even raises a voice against the patriarchal notion of chastity in women. …”
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Objects Can Be Unintentionally Beautiful: Feminist Ekphrasis and Object-Orientation in the Poetry of Mary Jo Bang and Bernadette Mayer by Paula Currás Prada

“…In 1981, Laura Mulvey famously amended her original contentions in “Visual Pleasure” (1973) to introduce the notion of a “female gaze.” Through ekphrastic poems—lyric representationsof visual art—contemporary women poets have also questioned the plausibility of a (female) polyvocal viewing subject, especially when poeticizing photographic and sculptural material. …”
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Transgression of Race, Gender, and Class: by Subrata Chandra Mozumder

“…This paper will, therefore, show that Mary Ann Shadd strongly transgresses the borders of race, gender, and class as the first black woman who owned and edited a newspaper, inspired American blacks towards freedom, confronted her contemporary male leaders, exposed the female gaze during a period of history when the male gaze was predominant and authoritative, became a public speaker making the world listen to her while working with the so-called socially aesthetic people despite being a “negro”. …”
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‘Mirror, Mirror on the Wall’: Female Subjective Dialectics in the Work of Paul Howard, Louise O’Neill and Naoise Dolan by Eugene O'Brien

“…In Exciting Times, Naoise Dolan’s central character is the object of a male and female gaze, as a bisexual character who oscillates between two lovers; Ava, therefore, problematizes and complicates the theory of reflection and the gaze.…”
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Thirdspace on the Frontier by Diana Turken

“…Women writers, particularly writers of color, remake the West into a Thirdspace, where borders are de-naturalized and the West re-opens into a true frontier zone of convergence and possibility. The female gaze questions the supremacy of the frontier myth by reimagining space without hierarchy and master narratives; a place that is no longer a terra nullius but full of possibility. …”
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In the name of emancipation : debilitating patriarchal vision in Djuna Barnes's Ladies Almanack and Nightwood. by Lim, Yan Ling.

“…Hence, this essay will explore whether Barnes posits a new way of seeing, or co-opts power from the ‘male gaze’ and answers Kaplan’s rhetorical question of the possibility of creating a ‘female gaze’, or disregards both possible routes out of the patriarchal mire and lapses into the realm of the Other. …”
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