"Laura Mulvey argued that the controlling gaze in cinema is always male. Spectators are encouraged to identify with the look of the male hero and make the heroine a passive object of erotic spectacle"
Chaudhuri, S. (2006). Feminist film theorists. London: Routledge.
"Satre argued that human being exist both in themselves and for themselves, unlike objects that are simply there, existing only in themselves. In the Second Sex, de Beauvior asserts that men have claimed this subject position for themselves and, in order to ratify themselves in it, they have reduced women to the position of an objectified 'Other', denying women existence for themselves".
Chaudhuri, S. (2006). Feminist film theorists. London: Routledge.
The Second Sex, De Beauvior
"De Beauvior herself was determined to shatter the myth of 'the eternal feminine' that, she claimed, human civilisation has produced. An essence that women are meant to embody, the 'eternal feminine' sometimes refers to a biological essence, at others to a spiritual one. It attributes qualities such as inferiority, gentleness and emotionality to women, as assumes them to be innate and fixed."
"For De Beauvior, on the other hand, no essential characteristics should determine how one becomes a woman."
"Friedan's book reiterated how women were defined only in sexual relation to me - this time as 'wife, sex object, mother housewife' - and never as people defining themselves by their own actions. (Friedan 2001: xv)"
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