"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. One of the latest conversations stirring social media pits two aesthetics against each other: modest versus provocative dressing.

Aastha Gaur, a Los Angeles–based creator and senior director of design at Google, describes her style as existing between chill and commanding, rather than feminine or masculine. “Imagine a T-shirt ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Whether I was realizing it or not, I think my appearance was very much to please the ‘male gaze,’ in a way,” she says during the ...

It’s an oh-so-good premise for an exhibition: exploring the female gaze. It has so much potential to open up areas of theorizing about how we look at each other as gendered beings and how else we ...

"Male gaze" is a term coined by film critic Laura Mulvey to describe the cinematic angle of a heterosexual male on a female character. As fiction imitates life, and vice versa, the male gaze has ...

The proverbial “male gaze” leaves many women to feel hyper-sexualized and guilty about their very femininity while others feel desexualized, as if they are nonexistent. For many young women and ...

If you have watched any sort of action movie where the guy always gets the girl, you’ve probably noticed the highlighted features of the woman he claims as his prize at the end of the story. She wears ...

Every October, women are told that the most revealing night of the year is also the most liberating. Halloween is when we can “take control” of our sexuality — to be witches, angels or vampires, not ...