Young People's Perspectives of the 'Male Gaze' and Matters of Representation in Online Pornography.
The 'male gaze' has become a particularly powerful concept used to identify and challenge objectifying and often sexualised media representations of women, but its place within pornography scholarship remains relatively unscrutinised. Some scholarship has suggested that its place in porn studies is...
| Published in: | Australian Feminist Studies Vol. 39; no. 122; pp. 442 - 458 |
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