male gaze

[ meyl-geyz ]

/ ˈmeɪl ˈgeɪz /

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noun

Often the male gaze . the assumption in visual and creative arts that the default or desired audience consists of heterosexual males, and inclusion of women in narrative or art should seek to please this audience with the objectification or sexualization of these depicted women.

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Origin of male gaze

Coined by Laura Mulvey (born 1941), British feminist film theorist in her essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” (1975)

Words nearby male gaze

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How to use male gaze in a sentence

An important entry regarding homoeroticism and the male gaze in hip hop is the work of Byron Hurt in the mid-2000s.
DaBaby, Boosie and Hip Hop’s Love-Hate Relationship With Homoeroticism|Tirhakah Love|August 25, 2021|The Daily Beast
The album also includes “Not My Responsibility,” a short monologue from 2020 that addresses toxic beauty standards, the male gaze, and the paparazzi.
4 Takeaways From Billie Eilish's New Album Happier Than Ever|Andrew R. Chow|July 30, 2021|Time
Browse her Instagram feed of bikini photos and it becomes difficult to disentangle how much those photos promote women’s body confidence and how much they capitalize on the male gaze.
Call Her Daddy’s Alexandra Cooper Made Her Name Talking About Sex. With Her Massive Spotify Deal, She’s Pushing Beyond That|Eliana Dockterman|July 21, 2021|Time
Mulvey refers to it as the “male gaze,” one that has traditionally objectified women in movies in ways that men are not.
Yes, Ben Affleck Goes Full-Frontal in ‘Gone Girl,’ Confronting One of Cinema’s Last Taboos|Marlow Stern|October 1, 2014|DAILY BEAST

In a fashion industry geared toward turning straight men on, these models are bucking the male gaze.
Cara Delevingne, Ireland Baldwin, and How Sexually Uninhibited Models Are Bucking the Male Gaze|Amanda Marcotte|July 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
As Margaret Lyons writes, “This wasn't an awards ceremony so much as a black-tie celebration of the straight white male gaze.”
Juvenile Misogynist Seth MacFarlane Is Not Funny|Amy Zimmerman|June 3, 2014|DAILY BEAST
They draw the male gaze into mysterious and sinister recesses.
Damn!|Henry Louis Mencken