Feminism and the concept of the "Male Gaze" which involves how media and society portrays women through a masculine lens to be looked at. It discusses how participants, audiences, and ways of looking contribute to the exploitation and objectification of women. While useful as a theory, it also has limitations and requires critical thinking and research to fully understand.
2. The Male Gaze involves
(connection with discourse)
 Participants
 Audience
 Ways of looking / views
 Exploitation of paratext (including setting)
and paralinguistic features
 Language ideology
 Language and gender
 Etc.
3. Warning
• As with all theories, there are some
limitations.
• This requires much thinking and research
in criticism of the theory.
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