Oppositional gaze, the Glossary
The oppositional gaze is a term coined by bell hooks the 1992 essay The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators that refers to the power of looking.[1]
Table of Contents
29 relations: Alterity, Édouard Manet, Bell hooks, Black people, Ego ideal, Feminist film theory, Gaze, Gender, Get Out, Judith Butler, Laura Mulvey, Lorraine O'Grady, Male gaze, Mammy stereotype, Manthia Diawara, Michel Foucault, Mirror stage, Olympia (Manet), Person of color, Phallocentrism, Prostitution, She's Gotta Have It, Sigmund Freud, Slavery in the United States, Spike Lee, Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy), The Female Eunuch, White feminism, White supremacy.
Alterity
Alterity is a philosophical and anthropological term meaning "otherness", that is, the "other of two" (Latin alter).
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Édouard Manet
Édouard Manet (23 January 1832 – 30 April 1883) was a French modernist painter.
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Bell hooks
Gloria Jean Watkins (September 25, 1952 – December 15, 2021), better known by her pen name bell hooks (stylized in lowercase), was an American author, theorist, educator, and social critic who was a Distinguished Professor in Residence at Berea College.
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Black people
Black is a racialized classification of people, usually a political and skin color-based category for specific populations with a mid- to dark brown complexion.
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Ego ideal
In Freudian psychoanalysis, the ego ideal (Ichideal) is the inner image of oneself as one wants to become.
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Feminist film theory
Feminist film theory is a theoretical film criticism derived from feminist politics and feminist theory influenced by second-wave feminism and brought about around the 1970s in the United States. Oppositional gaze and feminist film theory are feminist theory.
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Gaze
In critical theory, philosophy, sociology, and psychoanalysis, the gaze (French: le regard), in the figurative sense, is an individual's (or a group's) awareness and perception of other individuals, other groups, or oneself. Oppositional gaze and gaze are feminist theory.
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Gender
Gender includes the social, psychological, cultural and behavioral aspects of being a man, woman, or other gender identity.
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Get Out
Get Out is a 2017 American horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Jordan Peele in his directorial debut.
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Judith Butler
Judith Pamela Butler (born February 24, 1956) is an American philosopher and gender studies scholar whose work has influenced political philosophy, ethics, and the fields of third-wave feminism, queer theory, and literary theory.
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Laura Mulvey
Laura Mulvey (born 15 August 1941) is a British feminist film theorist and filmmaker.
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Lorraine O'Grady
Lorraine O'Grady (born September 21, 1934) is an American artist, writer, translator, and critic.
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Male gaze
In feminist theory, the male gaze is the act of depicting women and the world in the visual arts and in literature from a masculine, heterosexual perspective that presents and represents women as sexual objects for the pleasure of the heterosexual male viewer. Oppositional gaze and male gaze are feminist theory.
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Mammy stereotype
A mammy is a U.S. historical stereotype depicting black women, usually enslaved, who did domestic work, including nursing children.
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Manthia Diawara
Manthia Diawara (born December 19, 1953) is a Malian writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist, scholar, and art historian.
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Michel Foucault
Paul-Michel Foucault (15 October 192625 June 1984) was a French historian of ideas and philosopher who also served as an author, literary critic, political activist, and teacher.
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Mirror stage
The mirror stage (stade du miroir) is a concept in the psychoanalytic theory of Jacques Lacan.
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Olympia (Manet)
Olympia is a 1863 oil painting by Édouard Manet, depicting a nude white woman ("Olympia") lying on a bed being attended to by a black maid.
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Person of color
The term "person of color" (people of color or persons of color; abbreviated POC) is primarily used to describe any person who is not considered "white".
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Phallocentrism
Phallocentrism is the ideology that the phallus, or male sexual organ, is the central element in the organization of the social world. Oppositional gaze and Phallocentrism are feminist theory.
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Prostitution
Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.
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She's Gotta Have It
She's Gotta Have It is a 1986 American black-and-white comedy drama film written, produced, edited and directed by Spike Lee.
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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (born Sigismund Schlomo Freud; 6 May 1856 – 23 September 1939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for evaluating and treating pathologies seen as originating from conflicts in the psyche, through dialogue between patient and psychoanalyst, and the distinctive theory of mind and human agency derived from it.
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Slavery in the United States
The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.
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Spike Lee
Shelton Jackson "Spike" Lee (born March 20, 1957) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter, actor, and author.
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Subjectivity and objectivity (philosophy)
The distinction between subjectivity and objectivity is a basic idea of philosophy, particularly epistemology and metaphysics.
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The Female Eunuch
The Female Eunuch is a 1970 book by Germaine Greer that became an international bestseller and an important text in the feminist movement.
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White feminism
White feminism is a term which is used to describe expressions of feminism which are perceived as focusing on white women but are perceived as failing to address the existence of distinct forms of oppression faced by ethnic minority women and women lacking other privileges. Oppositional gaze and white feminism are feminist theory.
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White supremacy
White supremacy is the belief that white people are superior to those of other races and thus should dominate them.
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