(2) The object of this power is always exterior to him, and suggests what he can do for you and to you.
(3) A woman’s presence expresses her attitude towards herself, and defines what can and cannot be done to her.
(4) The surveyor and surveyed are two constituent yet distinct elements within her. She must monitor how she appears to men.
(5) Her sense of self is supplanted by her sense of being appreciated as herself by another.
(6) Men act, and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at.
Objectification / The Gaze / Voyeurism
Objectification – Pornographic imagery offers women as available for male
Sexual fantasy, in a restricted range of roles. Objectification is the practice of treating
another person as a commodity or as an object for use.
The gaze – The power to look upon others. It has been suggested that men possess
the gaze and look upon woman. This operates at a societal level and generates a
culture of image production in which women are contiually portrayed as objects for
men to look at, forcing women to internalise this gaze to the point where they survey,
and monitor their actions in relation to a perceived onlooker
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