Women's Studies 2220E Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Heteronormativity, Queer Theory, Dominatrix

• School: Western University
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: Women's Studies 2220E
• Professor: Erica Lawson

Document Summary

Sept 29 lecture ws 2220e engaging and repelling tpe: sherman (re)producing: voyeurism, How the gaze becomes somewhat projective if you continue to go on. Sherman"s untitled film stills semi-autobiographical but is often taking up tropes and is a masquerade the way that women are represented in the 50s and still are. Repeated patterns of the sexy librarian, the housewife etc. Concept of isolation for a metaphor for isolation subject caught within the frame. Stages the politics of viewing, but its process itself on display. Voyeurism and the choreography of the gaze o. There were three positions that there is passive, agentic, exaggerate and mimic the parody or we throw back the gaze (it"s no longer penetrative its more intersubjective opening onto otherness). o. Think about what we don"t see critically assessing her body before she is even in the public eye. Self-surveillance holding in herself and not taking up space feminist theories on media.