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Why losing the male gaze at 54 feels like freedom

What if the very thing you knew you would miss the attention of the male gaze is the very key to your freedom? For most women ...
Earlier this year, British singer Olly Murs sparked some serious online discourse when before-and-after photos from his “12-week gym transformation” went viral on social media. But it seems as though ...
This summer, I got cultural whiplash. As a child of the ’90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother’s and grandmother’s generations’ fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social ...
"Male gaze" is a term coined by film critic Laura Mulvey to describe the cinematic angle of a heterosexual male on a female character. As fiction imitates life, and vice versa, the male gaze has ...
On October 1 1975, the academic journal Screen published an essay by British film theorist Laura Mulvey titled Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. It is a groundbreaking critique of classical ...
A woman stands in front of the mirror. Her eyes rake over her reflection with surgical precision. The woman leans forward until her breath fogs the glass. She wipes the condensation so she can look at ...
Scarlett Johansson has seen roles for women in Hollywood improve since she started her career — but she remembers a time when things weren’t so rosy. “You know, it’s a different time for young women,” ...