Women's Studies 2161A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Male Gaze, Downton Abbey, Neoliberalism

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2161A/B
• Professor: Nichole Edwards

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Joyrich(cid:495)s characteristics of a melodrama, applicable to rtv: On bachelor: shot is used to display female bodies losing control. In porn in when the male cums on the female. Distribution inequality formed around the basis of capitalism expressed by economic differentiation: cultural capital-more important than others. Identities and consumption: rise of consumerism / changing face of capitalism in 20thand 21stcentury. Political power you have to influence public and political process*cultural . Poverty, low wages, lack of education -can now be explained as individual(cid:495)s: the right labels, clothes, furniture, body, makeup, house, car become problem. The flexible subject is the subject who succeeds via constant self-invention and self-management or failure in contemporary economic/social conditions. )f you don(cid:495)t you are demonized shame the person who doesn(cid:495)t consume: consume the right stuff and you have value, you are accepted, not a level playing field people may not have the money the right stuff (lack taste)