Feminine glance exhibits how the Lacanian thought of sexuation makes attainable a brand new account of the connection between feminism, psychoanalysis, and spectatorship. while prior experiences have tended to invite how spectatorship might be prompted through sexual distinction, Jennifer Friedlander asks how specific spectatorial encounters might engender assorted “sexuated” responses. In so doing, she strains a clean direction via Freud’s account of the connection among visible conception and sexual distinction and rereads Freud’s delusion of castration nervousness, suggesting that sexual identification arises as a reaction to the symbolic order’s indifference to the subject’s desire for an exceptional id. She examines provocative and arguable inventive pictures by means of Jamie Wagg, Marcus Harvey, and Sally Mann to illustrate how pictures not just create and include social practices but additionally precipitate viewer anxieties and pleasures.

“Feminine glance regularly retells and (re)explores numerous theories as Friedlander employs them to distinction the inscribed and licensed equipment of past due twentieth-century scholarly paintings on sexuation and spectatorship, and as she explores her conceptualization and subversion of those theories she indicates a brand new politics of the picture in addition to a brand new theoretical method. Her examples, incredible pictures, delicate argument, and well-based theoretical history make her moment e-book a unique contribution to movie, visible, and cultural experiences alike.” — Hungarian magazine of English and American Studies

“Blending very subtle psychoanalytic thought with a few novel and but vital visual-media texts, Friedlander makes a powerful contribution to the sphere of feminist visual-media concept and feminine spectatorship through returning to its origins in Lacanian experiences. via reinvestigating the function Lacan performed in these studies—vis-à-vis Freud, Saussure, and Barthes—she creates a playful new area for considering the gendered glance. She additionally bargains a theoretical account of ways modern images and different technological ‘gaze’ media characterize gendered photographs via subconscious and linguistic devices.” — Laura Hinton, writer of The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy: Sadomasochistic Sentiments from Clarissa to Rescue 911

Jennifer Friedlander is Edgar E. and Elizabeth S. Pankey Professor of Media stories and Assistant Professor of paintings heritage at Pomona College.