Media, Information and Technoculture 2200F/G Lecture Notes - Gender Identity, Laura Mulvey, Jacques Lacan
9 Jul 2014
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Visual pleasure and the narrative cinema laura mulvey (cctr) Chapter 7: gender and sexuality john storey (ctpc pg. Gender is the most basic point of identity. Gender intersects with other points of identity: sexuality, race, class, ethnicity and generation, ability. Thus, different versions of gender exist even within a given historical moment. Versions of gender are hierarchized (e. g. forms of masculinity are privileged over others) We tend to see our gender as naturally linked to our anatomies. Presumed naturalness" of anatomical differences implies that there are only two genders: compulsory heterosexuality". What we think of as natural" is discursively produced. Media and pop culture display idealized versions of ourselves that we identify ourselves against. Repesentations of women in mainstream media are implantations" of certain ideals and projections about women by men. Women"s bodies are the terrain for the projection of male desire. They bear the burden of a surplus of meaning, an excess of signification.
