WGST 1808 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Yasumasa Morimura, John Berger, Ableism
19 Jan 2017
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When you have a female body as a sexual commodity, it links with other systems and issues of power. Men look at women, women watch themselves being looked at. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves (john. You are put into the position of looking at an image as if you were hegemonic. The women is put into the position to look at herself as the person in the image. Always almost assumed to be the hegemonic man gaze. Yasumasa morimura: he took on a position of the female prostitute of the original feminine. Carrier hammer/danielle sheypuk: the dress should fit the woman, the women shouldn"t based portrait have to fit the dress . Media message of the perfect body: thin, white, young, long hair, big breast, and straight . The perfect body in the 16th century was larger, not fit.
