In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active/male and passive/female…In their traditional exhibitionist …

- Laura Mulvey

I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only well established but is now also attract…

- Laura Mulvey

It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would d…

- Laura Mulvey

By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens a…

- Laura Mulvey

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and o…

- Laura Mulvey

One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cine…

- Laura Mulvey

They are, in a sense, two sides of the same coin: women are, on the one hand, subjects of an extremely real and abject (as Julia Kristeva put it) bod…

- Laura Mulvey