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male gaze

male gaze noun: the implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.

Noun

male gaze

  1. The implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.

male gaze meaning in Tamil and Arabic

male gaze in Tamil

பார்வை மேய்வு

male gaze in Arabic

viewpoint of a heterosexual man
نَظْرَة ذُكُورِيَّة

Origin of male gaze

Coined by John Berger in the 1972 BBC documentary Ways of Seeing, and popularized by Laura Mulvey in "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema", published in 1975.

Words formed from male gaze

Questions about male gaze

What does male gaze mean?
Male gaze means the implicit assumption or presentation of the viewpoint of a heterosexual man in films and other visual media, often manifesting in lingering, eroticized shots of women's bodies.
What is male gaze in Tamil?
Male gaze in Tamil is பார்வை மேய்வு. See Male gaze meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is male gaze?
Male gaze is a noun.

Words near male gaze in the dictionary

  1. male enhancement
  2. male enhancements
  3. male fern
  4. male ferns
  5. male flight
  6. male gaze
  7. male genital cutting
  8. male genital mutilation
  9. male genital mutilations
  10. male genital mutilator
  11. male impersonator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: male gaze (page history and authors); male gaze (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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