Earlier this year, British singer Olly Murs sparked some serious online discourse when before-and-after photos from his “12-week gym transformation” went viral on social media. But it seems as though ...

"I'm dressing for the female gaze" is a phrase that is becoming popular. It is meant to imply that a woman's choice of style, from her make-up to her outfit to the way she carries herself, is all ...

On TikTok, we’re seeing the rise of content centred around decentering men, and "doing it for the female gaze". It’s less about looking desirable for someone else and more about crafting an image ...

This summer, I got cultural whiplash. As a child of the ’90s and early 2000s, I grew up with my mother’s and grandmother’s generations’ fight for legal and workplace equality helping shed social ...

On October 1 1975, the academic journal Screen published an essay by British film theorist Laura Mulvey titled Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema. It is a groundbreaking critique of classical ...

A woman stands in front of the mirror. Her eyes rake over her reflection with surgical precision. The woman leans forward until her breath fogs the glass. She wipes the condensation so she can look at ...

You’ve likely heard of the male gaze, the concept coined by British film theorist Laura Mulvey in her 1973 essay “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema.” In her writing, she notes that the “male gaze ...