female gaze

Today I Learnt: The Male Gaze Has Three Perspectives

Laura Mulvey, a British film theorist described the “male gaze” in her essay, ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’. She wrote, ‘In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between the active\male and passive\female’. This means that visual media reduces female characters with virtues and aspirations into mere objects of aesthetic value.