Women have always fought for equality and rights from their male counterparts, after many years of narcissistic identification, women finally won 'equality' and earned the right to vote in the 19th/20th century after the supreme sacrifices made by the suffragettes. As women got the vote they so desperately wanted for decades, the debate of feminism spread to a range of issues such as sexuality, family and the workplace. Feminism, even today, is still a big issue as women are often being victimised at work or turned into sexual objects by the media, as you can see in the "Wrecking Ball" video below, by Miley Cyrus.
Laura Mulvey
She is a British feminist film theorist. She worked at the British film institute for many years. She believes that Hollywood cinema puts the spectator in a masculine subject position, with the women on the screen as the objects of desire. This is also known as "The Male Gaze."
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