Monday, 19 December 2016

Key Text - Ways of Seeing, John Berger


Notes from Text
  • 'the social presence of a woman is different in kind from that of a man. A man's presence is dependant upon the promise of power which he embodies' - Roles.
  • 'Her presence is manifest in her gestures, voice, opinions, expressions, clothes, chosen surroundings, taste...' - Aesthetics.
  • 'A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself' - Judged by appearance.
  • 'Men act and women appear'.
  • 'Thus she turns herself into an object and most particularly an object of vision: a sight' - Objectification.
  • 'Physical emanation'.

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