In 1975, Laura Mulvey wrote an essay that reshaped feminist film theory. Its ideas still echo today, in every slow-mo entrance and lingering camera shot.
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Lewd customers, backstabbing co-workers and managers making unrealistic demands can take a toll.
The horrifying case in France of a husband who drugged his wife to orchestrate her rapes raises difficult questions about the images of sleeping beauties in our literature. Isn’t it time we reread these texts?
The outrage misdirected at Lolita – and its author – does nothing to negate the realities it reflects. Reading Nabokov’s novel now raises questions about censorship, book banning and human nature.
Director Steven Soderbergh believes he has presented a female perspective, but all he’s done is shoot men in the same dehumanising way that has historically fetishised women
Marilyn Monroe endures as an icon thanks to a perfect storm of biography and cultural context.
Five red flags parents should listen for in popular songs.
A century ago, early British nudists had to fight for the right to publish naked photos – the similarities with social media today are striking.
Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice and the film Rear Window are great examples of how parents and teachers can use movies and books to start discussions with young people about consent.
Preliminary research shows that men and women tend to use Zoom differently because gender dynamics influence online activities.
For too long the tired tropes of the male gaze in film and literature have focused on girls’ sexual precociousness. Girlhood culture deserves to be represented more authentically.
Feminists in Africa must step up to the challenge and redress the manner in which African women are portrayed in the digital age.
Perfectionism-driven social anxiety means young men will also be susceptible to ideological scripting of behaviour on TV.
Many women find it easier to identify with different genders in sexual scenarios – for this, and many other reasons, gay porn can be a turn on.
The paintings in Del Kathryn Barton’s new show at NGV Australia are visually stunning and painstakingly executed. But the women depicted are often de-personalised objects or headless cauldrons of destructive passion.
The relevance of the female gaze is brought sharply into focus in this funny, shocking and groundbreaking drama
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