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bell hooks’ ”The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectatorship”

Theory & Philosophy

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The Oppositional Gaze

Laura mulvay's psychoanalytic approach always centres a white men and white women. So again, but not all, black women would see these images and think anything wrong of it. For it to be possible to have critical black female spectatorship, the kind of thing that hooks is describing as the oppositional gaze,. It must actively resist the imposition of dominant ays of knowing and seeing. That gives us a more helistic, broad picture of what's going on here. And ye please comment. Tell me where you're from. I'd love to hear from you. If y listen to this in po cas form, and you like what i did, you can leave

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