The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen

The Fraught Rapture of Seeing Other Women Onscreen

Cover of Feminism and the Cinema of Experience by Lori Jo Marso (Duke University Press, 2025) Since the publication of John Berger’s seminal 1972 Ways of Seeing, the specter of the “male gaze” has been at the forefront of much feminist art and film criticism. “Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at,” he wrote. “This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves.” But what…