‘If you look at me like at a piece of meat, then that’s a problem’ – women in the center of the male gaze. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis as a tool of critique

Glapka, Ewa

doi:10.1080/17405904.2017.1390480

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“…In context feminism-post structuralism, this situation will affect woman representation in Indonesian culture. This aligns with Namatende-Sakwa (2019) and Glapka (2018), arguing that emotions are required to relate to female knowledge or feminism so the female students can be attracted to science activity.…”

Section: Laboratory Activitiessupporting

confidence: 77%

The Representation of Gender Neutrality in Indonesian Physics Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Gumilar¹,

Amalia²

2020

Tadris

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Gender issues in Indonesia are pivotal issues in science/physics textbooks and any aspects of life. As learning resources commonly utilized in the science classroom, physics textbooks should present gender neutrality to urge women's contribution to science. They are frequently considered less performance than those men in science. However, in the Indonesian context, few studies of gender representation in the physics textbook are conducted. Therefore, this present study investigates gender stereotypes in Indonesian physics textbooks based on social actor criteria. A Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) is a qualitative research method employed to analyze gender neutrality discourse. The use of visual artifacts that refer to the representation of both men and women in the textbooks were utilized to emerge the roles of men and women in three frameworks: laboratory activities, physics application in daily life, and roles of men and women in the family. This present study's findings revealed that representation both men and women were almost to have the same representations based on three of these frameworks. Finally, this present study's implication is to underpin the woman representation to contribute to science activities.

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Section: Laboratory Activitiessupporting

confidence: 77%

The Representation of Gender Neutrality in Indonesian Physics Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Gumilar¹,

Amalia²

2020

Tadris

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“…Moreover, the discovery of the girl somehow also matches up with what Ewa Glapka once declared, that when a female "compar[es] herself to meat…[the] consumption in which her subjecthood is annihilated as she is reduced to a passive, anonymous and voiceless body" [30]. To some extent, Carter is using the mirror reflection and the heroine's discovery of the first stage to illustrate a kind of social phenomenon of which female members' statuses are reduced by the patriarchy when being materialized into a voiceless object.…”

Section: -2-female Consciousness In the Processes Of Awakeningsupporting

confidence: 53%

Female Objects and Feminist Consciousness for the Purpose to Awake Readers’ Awareness: A Comparative Analysis between Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Anne Sexton’s Transformations

Fenglin

2020

Emerg Sci J

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The female object, as a symbolic image created by male authors to reduce the threat brought by females towards patriarchy, has become a method to express male sexual and domestic fantasies. However, in the fairy tale adaptation by two mid-twentieth century female authors-Angela Carter and Anne Sexton, the female object is used to evoke feminist consciousness. Although former studies have covered some feminism issues, for instance, the feminist awareness through the mirror image in Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber, and the direct metaphors such as “doll” and “soap pop” which lead to female objectification in Anne Sexton’s Transformations, little research has compared the distinctive psychological impacts that the narrative forms between the two mentioned texts have on readers. In the first section of this paper, how both authors deconstruct the female stereotypes and how they reinterpret modes of female agency in the original Grimm’s fairy tales have been examined. Based on the writers’ perspective, the first section would also explore the expression of female objects in their works. As for the second section, I would mainly focus on the psychoanalysis of Lacan’s mirror stages, and yet cover the awakening processes presented in the mirror images and symbols composed in the two adaptations. In the third section, the different narrative strategies utilized by Carter and Sexton in order to stimulate readers’ responses towards feminist consciousness would be illustrated.

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“…Feminist critics, such as Laura Mulvey, find Freudian interpretations of male gaze and its underlying psychological foundations as endorsement of pre-existing patriarchal social values (e.g. Glapka 2018, Ponterotto 2016, Gallardo 2001, Sassatelli 2011, Mulvey 1975. Scopophilia, in Freudian theory, is a by-product of ego/ego-libido development beginning in infancy which involves gradual psycho-somatic stages that, in Freudian terminology, are understood as realization of the self distinct from the other, the desire to look at others' bodily functions, male child's visualization of the female body as a lack of what he has, castration anxiety, repression of desires, displacement, condensation, use of defence mechanism, interference of the subconscious, formation of socially acceptable ego, and finally, the repressed desires subconsciously expressed as scopophilia and voyeurism (summary based on Freud 1905, pp.…”

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confidence: 99%

The Image of Woman and the Concept of Male Gaze in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man

2021

JALHSS

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Laura Mulvey (1941-), a British feminist theorist, is the first to introduce the concept of "male gaze" in her 1975 essay -Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema‖ critiquing that image of the objectified female in films. This theory came out of the context of the feminist movement shedding light on the problematic female portrayals claiming that women's existence can only be shown in patriarchal terms and in relation to men. Hollywood cinema produced several recurrent images of women in patriarchal societies rendering them passive and men active. In the present paper, I argue that Mulvey's theory bearing a determining impression on the interpretation of the image of women as objects-to-be-gazed-at not only applies to films but also to drama. This research investigates the presentation of female characters in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man (1894) from this unique perspective employing Sigmund Freud's scopophiliac elements. It is found that Mulvey's concept is reinforced in the play by pre-existing patterns of fascination resulted from the social formations which already moulded that patriarchal society in the Victorian era. In the play, Raina, Catherine and Louka are presented as passive, pretty faces to be gazed at, in contrast to the leading male characters-Sergius, Bluntschli and Petkoff-who are seen as active, war-like creatures reflecting a lack that determines women unequal to men in every aspect and thus endorsing dehumanization of women. In Shaw's dramatic performance under investigation, women lack men's distinguished traits and this lack, consequently, plays a significant role towards the construction of the symbolic male gaze. Gender power is found to be a controlling force not only in films but in theatre too and that is deeply rooted in patriarchal ideologies and discourses.

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‘If you look at me like at a piece of meat, then that’s a problem’ – women in the center of the male gaze. Feminist Poststructuralist Discourse Analysis as a tool of critique

Cited by 18 publications

References 29 publications

The Representation of Gender Neutrality in Indonesian Physics Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis

The Representation of Gender Neutrality in Indonesian Physics Textbooks: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Female Objects and Feminist Consciousness for the Purpose to Awake Readers’ Awareness: A Comparative Analysis between Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Anne Sexton’s Transformations

The Image of Woman and the Concept of Male Gaze in George Bernard Shaw's Arms and the Man

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