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Fashion. Gaze &. Study Question:. You Look GORGEOUS Today!. 1.Why we love to gaze and be gazed ? 2.Why women tend to be gazed ?. Mirror Stage. Q: How we identify ourselves with ourselves?. Ans: To recognize ourselves, we have to internalize the gaze from the field of the other.
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Fashion Gaze &
Study Question: You Look GORGEOUS Today! 1.Why we love to gaze and be gazed ? 2.Why women tend to be gazed ?
Mirror Stage Q: How we identify ourselves with ourselves? Ans: To recognize ourselves, we have to internalize the gaze from the field of the other.
The power of gaze • Primary Narcissism: love to be gazed • Loss of Autonomy: fear to be gazed
The Masculine Renunciation Nowadays Phenomenon: Female dresses is more ornamental than the male ones. Time: Industrial Revolution in 18th century Before 18th century: Sartorial Extravagance After 18th century: Sartorial Sobriety
Social Perspective: wife’s responsibility Psychological Perspective: inhibit the narcissistic and exhibitionistic desires 1. sublimation into professional ‘showing off’ 2.reversal into scopophilia 3.male identification with woman-as-spectacle WHY?
The Male Gaze • Voyeurism vs. Exhibitionism • scopophilia+women-as-spectacle=the male gaze • Result: Women’s self-awareness is disciplined by the male gaze.
Conclusion Finding: Women are not born to be gazed at and men are not born to gaze others, either. Problem: Males can’t adorn themselves Female can’t gaze at the male Solution: This restriction is little by little loose in pop-music.