Liminal Femininity: Magical Realism and the Abject in Louise Erdrich’s Tracks by Anja Mrak

“…The novel also considers female sexual agency and different modes of exerting and losing control in encounters defined by sexual objectification and the male gaze. Fleur’s and Pauline’s stories demonstrate how the female body becomes a site of colonial enterprise, which devalues, exploits, and nearly eradicates the Native American community, their culture, and philosophies. …”
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Is it Possible to Represent the Sexual Relation in Cinema? by Matthew Flisfeder, Anthony Ballas

“…The author argues that Mulvey was correct in her conclusions, however not with regard to the production of a “ male gaze”, but rather with regard to the cinematographic construction of male desire, which is a constitutive element of patriarchal society. …”
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Female Action Hero vs Male Dominance: The Female Representation in Mad Max: Fury Road by Sotirios BAMPATZIMOPOULOS

“…In recent years, female action heroes seem to have conquered the world of cinema, partially satisfying the demand for strong female characters that would elude the voyeurism of what Laura Mulvey famously described as “the male gaze.” However, among feminist theorists there has been a great debate on whether these films actually challenge the patriarchal structures, or just reproduce the same old stereotypes in a more polished and misleading manner. …”
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Victims and Survivors in the Rape-Revenge Narrative: A Comparison of Black Christmas (2019) and I May Destroy You (2020) by Michaela Keating

“…While typically a trope in genre films seen through the male gaze, female filmmakers are reclaiming this narrative. …”
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Re-Writing History on Screen: Annemarie Jacir's Salt of This Sea by Kenza Oumlil

“…It refreshingly departs from inflicting a male gaze on the lead female actor. Salt of This Sea responds to the dominant construction of Arab and Muslim women as passive with the portrayal of a determined heroine. …”
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La donna mostro. L’"aging" nella commedia all’italiana fra generi e genere by Ruggero Ragonese

“…In this way perhaps we will find another kind of “monstrosity”: female otherness, constantly looking for its (uncomfortable) position within movies that are unapologetic representations of the male gaze.…”
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The Nightmare by Henry Füssli: a review of its association with sleep paralysis through the idea of the sublime by Amaia Salazar, Tonia Raquejo

“…Through this, we can observe, understand, and precisely interpret the psychophysical effects of this experience on the viewer and detect the pleasure of scopophilia in Füssli's male gaze. …”
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Female Photographic Representations in the Post-Ottoman Landscape: the Female Body as a Battleground of Imperialisms and Nationalisms by Aikaterini Gegisian

“…Rejecting chronological and geographical taxonomies and organising the postcards based on the posture of the women, the work shapes a series of movements that disrupt specific ideologies and question the male gaze.…”
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Women and cities. The conquest of urban space by Letizia Carrera, Marina Castellaneta

“…The public space was still strongly a male space and women, still with a weak public subjectivity, remained the object of the male gaze. Women have begun a process of conquering urban space by claiming their right to the city, through their physical presence in the city itself. …”
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Curatorial Directing and Actor Agency by Amanda Rose Villarreal

“…This article focuses on the ways in which the framing of Zoom Theatre can complicate Laura Mulvey’s concept of the Male Gaze (1975), introducing the concepts of agentic framing and curatorial directing as tools for creating consent-based performance within the unique contexts of Zoom Theatre. …”
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Carla Lonzi’s Wardrobe by Leonardo Campagna

“…Often in history, male fashion designers have exploited the female body for their artistic whims, and just as often, women have refused to comply with the dictates of fashion as the embodiment of an aestheticizing and fetishistic male gaze. However, on many occasions, feminists have reappropriated and resemantized the domestic practices of knitting, sewing and embroidery, conceptualizing them as different ways to think about politics, community, the self, and relationality. …”
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The Bamboo Queen By Abani Kumar Baral by Anjali Tripathy

“…Not only do the outsiders who watch her performance subject her to their sexualised male gaze, but she is also used as a source of income by her own father by showing her body in tight clothes while performing, thus relying upon her physical charm. …”
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La comédienne dell’arte et son public au XVIIe siècle : un modèle dramaturgique et sa réception by Cécile Berger

“…However, because of the lack of any direct female first-hand accounts about the actresses at that time, the analysis tries to define the contours of their audience through the repertory of these actresses. The contemporary male gaze makes it possible to get some information about the expressiveness of the actress, whether it comes from post-Tridentine Church detractors and censors, or from admirers and/or fellow actors. …”
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Subject playing with flat images: Transmedia spreadability of anime and manga character images [version 2; peer review: 2 approved] by Kohki Watabe

“…While psychoanalysis-influenced theories such as suture and male gaze model after one-point perspective and subordinate two-dimensionality, Thomas Lamarre formulates a de-unified perspective in relation to the multilayered image field of Japanese anime. …”
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Never-Ending Gender/Sexual Cannibalism? Transformation of Female Idolisation in Japan by Ng Lay Sion

“…While the concept of “idol as image” imposed by idol producers fosters the fetishisation and objectification of female human bodies, the consuming act exhibited by the male gaze indicates a metaphorical form of gender/sexual cannibalism. …”
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When images hurt hyper-reality and symbolic violence in Indonesian men’s lifestyle magazines by Desi Dwi Prianti

“…AbstractIn Western culture, the practice of looking has traditionally been perceived as an act of dominance. Enacted by the male gaze, looking implies an active position, whilst to be looked at implies a passive position. …”
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Post-Ottoman Empire European Imaginations of the Image of the Women of Maghreb by M. Önder GÖNCÜOĞLU

“…However, this study analyses primarily how the women of Maghreb, of countries such as Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco, but also Egypt, were represented by the Western male gaze after these places -- once the provinces of the Ottoman Empire -- went under the control of European powers, notably France. …”
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Issues of virtual fashion influencers’ reproduced bodies: a qualitative analysis based on body discourse by Yeongyo Shin, Selee Lee

“…Based on the above theories, these reproduced bodies can suggest the following issues related to the risks of modern society: (1) the reproduction of standardized stereotypes, (2) the expression of the male gaze, power, and desire, and (3) colonial gender hierarchy.…”
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Dancing Fingers: Moving Mimicry and Abstract Tactility by Filippo Fimiani

“…This haptic displacement of the male gaze is an erotic interplay between projection and incorporation, predatory aspirations and un-reflected imitation, the masculine and the feminine, leading to a hysterical embodiment akin to Aristotle’s tactile illusion and the reprise of scientific iconography by Max Ernst in Au Premier Mot Limpide (1923). …”
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Conforming to feminine norms of appearance and beauty ideals : self-inflicted objectification? by Lock, Jing Wen

“…Inspired by Nussbaum, I attempt to develop an account of self-objectification which includes internalization of the male gaze and non-sexualized objectification. The core of this paper argues that conforming to feminine norms of appearance results in reduction and dehumanization, that are two necessary and jointly sufficient conditions to constitute self-objectification. …”
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