Sentences with phrase «of male desire»

Many of these artists explored the role of the body in art, often positioning the female body as an active subject, beyond the role of the passive object of male desire.

Are these paintings directed at a traditional notion of male desire?

It nods to the way that young girls are treated as passive objects of male desire.

But the more time marches on, the more Humanae Vitae appears prophetic, for Paul VI voiced four concerns regarding artificial contraception that have largely become realities: a general lowering of moral standards; increased marital infidelity; the reduction of women to instruments for the fulfillment of male desire; and public authorities engaging in coercive population planning programs.

The accusation that the Church by the masculine nature of the language it has used of God has for centuries reflected and reinforced a patriarchal society, which has shut out female forms of self - representation and seen women in terms of male desire, is hard to refute.

The females, without exception, serve as objects of male desire without character arcs of their own.

Foster Hirsch, author of «Detours and Lost Highways: A Map of Neo-Noir» puts it this way: «While the protagonist is conceived securely within a noir tradition, the film rewrites the femme fatale as a victim rather than a manipulator of male desire.»

This work in particular helped liberate the female body from the fixation of male desire.

Projections of maleness on the female body in order to alter inscribed subconscious notions of male desire and control voiced in the 1970s are still valid.

That being said, the main function of the female gaze is to perceive female characters as self - defined subjects and not merely as sexualized objects of male desire.

Despite all my aforementioned praising of this show, it exhibits the same pratfalls that many TV shows have with displaying women as «objects of male desire» as Laura Mulvey described in her famous essay «Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.»

Performance, and photographic and video documentation of it, became a major part of her strategy, which was always directed by her goal to free the women's body from its use as a tool for male expression and object of male desire.