Lorraine Gamman

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Is it only men that look? What happens when a woman is the observer? What is happening when women look at women?
These essays on popular culture explore the contradictions and possibilities in the new images of powerful women such as Cagney and Lacey, Edwina Currie or Madonna. Does Alexis Carrington really represent the wilder side of women, or yet another example of sex co-opted for capitalism? And what has Sielberg*s film done to The Color Purple? Is the female gaze being made to serve 'male' ideologies, such as law and order or the Protestant work ethic? Or does active female spectatorship present a challenge even to feminist film criticism?
The editors both teach women's studies, Lorraine Gamman at Middlesex Polytechnic and Margaret Marshment at the University of Kent.… (plus d'informations)