Gender and Sexuality

Question 1

According to Mulvey, how are women portrayed in cinema?

Answer 1

As something to be looked at. Film plays on the psychological tendency of scopophilia, and ego representation/misrepresentation of the audiences to allow them to view women in a voyeuristic manner, as well as incorporate ego representation to the men of the film.

Question 2

According to Mulvey, how are men portrayed in cinema?

Answer 2

The controller of the gaze. A representation/misrepresentation of a mirrored ego.

Question 3

Why does Butler argue that the feminist aim of representing “women” is flawed?

Answer 3

Feminism is using a representation model of “women” that was generated by the power discourses that also limit women.

Question 4

What does Butler suggest in tackling the representation issues of feminism?

Answer 4

Feminism needs to understand and address how “women” are classified and represented. Feminists need to be critical of the structures that generate the limiting framework of what it means to be a woman.

Question 5

How does our subconscious deal with castration anxiety?

Answer 5

Classify women as mere objects

Question 6

A man acts while women __________

Answer 6

Are to be acted on