Sonam, who debuted with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Saawariya in 2007, in her latest interview with a magazine spoke about body positivity, the changes that society needs to work on and how the portrayal of women in Hindi cinema even today caters to the male gaze.
Keira Knightly said that she feels very uncomfortable now trying to portray the male gaze.
Waistlines of Indian women often remain objects of scorching gazes and continuous ogling. If these waistlines do not fit a particular size or shape, they are condemned. Why?
Laura Mulvey, a British film theorist described the “male gaze” in her essay, ‘Visual pleasure and narrative cinema’. She wrote, ‘In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been split between the active\male and passive\female’. This means that visual media reduces female characters with virtues and aspirations into mere objects of aesthetic value.
When it comes to what women wear, the entire world has an opinion to offer but nothing is more demoralising than other women dress shame you. Every woman in this world has the right to wear what she wants to. She isn’t answerable to anyone on her choice of clothes. But often it is women […]
Meloy and Gothard have defined stalking as the willful, malicious and repeated following or harassing of another person that threatens his or her safety. Stalking is the most prevalent, but unfortunately overlooked form of sexual harassment. Thanks to the recent celebrity victim – Sachin Tendulkar’s daughter Sara who has been stalked by a man from […]
