{"id":1330,"date":"2021-11-29T20:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/?p=1330"},"modified":"2021-11-29T20:24:45","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:24:45","slug":"gaze-chloe-whelan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/29\/gaze-chloe-whelan\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaze- Chloe Whelan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As it is explained in the text, gaze is the term used to describe the way in which gendered, raced, eroticised, and other identities become visible through media. Gaze is the way that individuals view, identify with, construct, and categorise the identities of others through visual representation. One of the most prominent &#8220;gazes&#8221; embodied through the media is the male gaze. The male gaze, sees women (specifically the female body) as something\u00a0<em>for<\/em> the heterosexual male. The male gaze is the way that women are depicted in the media from a heterosexual male perspective, representing women as sexual objects formal viewers. I think a great example of the male gaze is exemplified by female superheroes in marvel movies. Although they are just as strong and powerful as the men, their outfits are typically very sexualised. They usually wear skin tight suits, minimal &#8216;armour&#8217;, and always have a full face of makeup. Although we&#8217;ve normalised this, we can&#8217;t forget that these female characters are designed to appeal to the male gaze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As it is explained in the text, gaze is the term used to describe the way in which gendered, raced, eroticised, and other identities become visible through media. Gaze is the way that individuals view, identify with, construct, and categorise the identities of others through visual representation. One of the most prominent &#8220;gazes&#8221; embodied through the media is the male&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/2021\/11\/29\/gaze-chloe-whelan\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5397,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177312,87686],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaze","category-keywords"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5397"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/mci-fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}