It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary … - Laura Mulvey

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Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

Laura Mulvey

It seems to be generally acknowledged that sexism is far from defeated, flourishing through religions and other reactionary ideologies, which would definitely and gladly erase the concept of feminism.

Defeated, Feminism, Flourishing, Generally

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In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between active
male and passive
female…In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simultaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness

Erotic, Impact, Looking, Split, Strong

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 obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

Live, Maker, Males, Men, Order, Symbolic

By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.

Articulated, Generations, Media, Perspective, Representation

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) body and denigrated sexuality; on the other, the proliferation of images, and their digitalisation produces more and more abstract and air-brushed representations of impossible female bodies. Both indicate, certainly, a "lack of progress. " But, one hopes, discussions and resistance are emerging in response.

Air, Body, Emerging, Hand, Hands, Real

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 attracting interest from young women, including teenagers and pre-teens. But a new interest is also symptomatic of the failure of the feminist project and the need for its renewal.

Failure, Feminist, Including, Progress, Teenager