Read My Desire, Pt. 1: Gaze and Excess
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Joan Mulvey's Manifestation of the Gaze Is a Historicist Way of Thinking
Mari Rudy: Joan didn't want to take on Mulvey, but I think you could say that the patriarchy manifests itself in the obfuscation of the gaze rather than in the manifestation of it. She says this is a historicist way of thinking because it reduces everyone to their context. Mari Rudy: The state of the American academy is not like the same time period as Europe or South America.
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