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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Dripping pink and blue by Darlene Clover, Nancy Taber, Kathy Sanford

“…We argue that the Hack is an important and innovative practice because it turns museums into spaces of ‘pedagogic possibility’ – sites where we can learn new strategies of feminist opposition to counter the male gaze and its ability to define women’s lives. …”
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Representing Bodies and Bathing Machines: Jane Austen’s <i>Sanditon</i> and Andrew Davies’s 2019 ITV Adaptation by Gill Ballinger

“…Scenes offering salacious views of naked men sea-bathing counter the historical tradition of the female nude offered up for male gaze; the female body, in contrast, remains fully clothed in response to the contemporary Me-Too context. …”
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The Sharīʿah and the Muslim Feminists’ Public Display of the Female Body by Ibrahim Olatunde Uthman

“…Laura Mulvey’s Hollywood Theory on entertainment spectatorship, as used in her “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” is adopted as the theoretical framework to engage the notions of the lustful male gaze and women’s erotic power of fitnah as prevalent in Islamic discourse. …”
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Beauty and Possession. Reversible Eros by Floriana Ferro

“… The paper aims at connecting the concepts of beauty and possession, traditionally coupled with the male gaze, with eros as felt by women, by homosexuals, and by those who do not identify with a defined gender (transgender, intersexual, and other non-binary people). …”
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The Unwanted Gaze? Feminism and the Reception of the Amazons in Wonder Woman by Walter D. Penrose

“…While her revealing costume has been controversial over the years, and Wonder Woman has been subjected to the male gaze, the film, like the comics before them, utilized a female perspective to question the stranglehold that patriarchy has held over the population.…”
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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

“…This essay will examine how the three authors Paul Howard, Louise O’Neill and Naoise Dolan see the gaze, and the male gaze, as constitutive of subjectivity and identity in a twenty-first-century Irish context. …”
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Brueghel, Van Gogh, and Chirico: Inter-Animation of Painting and Writing in Some Ekphrastic Poems by Sadia Binte Kausar

“…This article also addresses some poems based on Giorgio de Chirico’s Conversation among the Ruins and demonstrates how Sylvia Plath’s eponymous poem subverts the male gaze accentuated in Chirico’s painting. This article contends that ekphrastic poems are not mere descriptions of the paintings, rather they stand alone as independent forms of art as a result of being outcomes of the poets’ creative and emotional responses.…”
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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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Lucia Marcucci: Visual Poetry Against Social Violence by Marzia D'Amico

“…The article aims to present a feminist lens (from male gaze to self-objectification) not as the absolute and only way of interpreting Marcucci’s verbal-visual poems, but as useful in highlighting the specific qualities of Marcucci’s research and poetics. …”
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Gazes and Bodies in the Pornographies of Desire by Mirko Lino

“…Partendo dal famoso saggio di Laura Mulvey, Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema (1975), si sposterà il centro dell’analisi dal cinema narrativo tradizionale al cinema pornografico, considerando quest’ultimo un modello che fa contrappunto al voyeurismo dello sguardo maschile (male gaze) che la Mulvey riscontrava in alcuni film di Sternberg e di Hitckcock. …”
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The feminist agenda in poltergeist : subverting synchronized dialogue. by Lee, Hsien Jun.

“…Moreover, classical Hollywood cinema’s phallocentric nature means that it privileges the phallus as the “speaking subject… equivalent to [an] unseen enunciator” which predicates the exclusion of female voice based on “an incapacity for looking, speaking, or listening authoritatively, on the one hand, and with what might be called a ‘receptivity’ to the male gaze and voice, on the other” (Silverman 31). …”
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The female body in K.S. Maniam's play "The Sandpit: Womensis" by Wan Yahya, Wan Roselezam

“…Maniam's play "The Sandpit: Womensis" through Laura Mulvey's theory of the male gaze. The findings point to the fact that 'woman' on stage has most often been constructed by men, to be viewed by other men and other women as an object, not a subject. …”
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La femme invisible : les cas de Laura Palmer et Diane Evans by Louise Van Brabant

“…Far more discreet, she represents Laura’s fundamental counterpoint: while the latter's body is offered to the (male) gaze, Diane’s escapes it completely. Moreover, whereas Laura is progressively disembodied, Diane is gradually incarnated. …”
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A Silent Resistance: Objectification and a Clash of Empowerment in Doris Lessing's “A Woman on a Roof” by Asya Sakine UÇAR

“…Conducting an analysis under the guidance of issues like the male gaze, objectification, body and power, it is possible to focus on how the woman becomes victorious against the three men in the end and in what ways the story illuminates how easily men can be threatened by female independence and how they can respond violently when their sense of control and mastery is challenged.…”
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Identity experiments in two female photographers of Yemeni women by Bokir, Shada Salem, Ruzy Suliza Hashim, Anita Harris Satkunananthan, Olmedo, Eric

“…The implications of this study towards society are in the dissection of the male gaze in Yemeni society as well as a non-exotic representation of the hijaband how this influences the female identity in conservative Yemeni society.…”
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Patriarchal oppression in palestinian society through the institution of marriage in the novel of Noble Origins by Sahar Khalifeh by Priyanka Priyanka

“…The paper includes a theoretical framework comprising patriarchy, neopatriarchy and male gaze. Keywords: patriarchy; neopatriarchy; gender discrimination; institution of marriage; Sahar Khalifeh…”
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‘VENETIAN TEXT’ AND AESTHETICS OF REFLECTIONS IN PAUL SCHRADER’S ‘THE COMFORT OF STRANGERS’ BASED ON THE NOVEL BY IAN MсEWAN by Ольга Анатольевна Джумайло (Olga A. Dzhumaylo)

“…In this respect, repetitive optical images, photographs, mirroring surfaces are as curious as the very showing of the process of taking pictures, voyeuristic practices on screen, and observations about enjoyment as an effect of male gaze. Moreover, there are mirroring episodes in which the characters confess about their wish to watch their beloved experiencing some kind of corporeal transgression. …”
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Picturing texts and reframing the visual arts: feminist modes of ekphrasis in The Matisse Stories, how to be both, and A Line Made By Walking by Khua, Kelly Janine Xiao Rong

“…Close reading the three writers’ deployment of artworks into their texts reveals how they have developed novel ways to challenge conventions of ekphrasis that privilege the male gaze and relegate the image as a female Other. …”
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Breastfeeding in public: a study of attitudes and perception among Malay undergraduates in Universiti Sains Malaysia by Maria Aloysius, Shariffah Suraya Syed Jamaludin

“…Seven themes which are discretion, public perception, social taboo, emotions, and hypersexualization of breasts, male gazing and voice of change towards breastfeeding in public were identified. …”
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