ASB 311 Social Anthro/Koptiuch

 

The Gaze

 

Kaplan

Male/female gaze

Gender

(white, Western)

Psychoanalysis

Hollywood films

Diawara

Black resistant spectator

Race

(male)

Social context, psychoanalysis

Birth of a Nation

Williamson

Woman is an island (in a sea of exploitation)

Race, gender, colonialism

Semiotics, political economy

Ads

Fuss

Homospectatorial look; vampire lesbians

(homo)sexuality

Psychoanalysis, semiotics

Fashion photography

Margaret Mead debate

Mead/Freeman

Nurture/nature

Culture/biology

Gender

Male v female

(white, Western, colonialist)

Social anthropology

Ethnographic fieldwork

 

The gaze is a way of seeing, a perspective, shaped by particular social and disciplinary formation.  Its constructions become embedded in what counts as "knowledge" and its effects have consequences for the world. The gaze can be challenged! The gaze can be changed!