In a painting by Maes, the maid, with a cat, is in the kitchen making love, and a couple sit decorously upstairs. ... (p.63) Maes was also experimenting with vistas and adjoining paintings of women at household tasks. ... The young woman bending over her work is poised between two contagious spaces showing oblique views, one to the outdoors and the other into a further room, where we can just discern a pitcher on a table. ... Even the two ancillary spaces - the area out the window and the room at the back - are split vertically into two sections, one with a pitcher, one without. ... The two p...

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She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". ... Mulvey is initially concerned with people's obsession with narrative cinema. ... In Memorias del subdesarollo, Sergio, a 38 year old bourgeois aspiring writer, views the political conditions of Cuba through his various relationships with women. ... Sergio is extremely confident, misogynistic, and condescending, looking down on the women he is involved with as well as the country he lives in, which he often neglects to distinguish between, referring to both...

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She was a commoner among royals, revolting against the societal norms of her time with her vulgar, yet ingeniously crafty works. ... At a time and place when men controlled everything, one could see the hesitancy of audiences in accepting a woman as a valid author or viewing Behn herself as a serious writer. ... She proves to readers that "people with authority are given the power to rule even when dressed like a person with no authority" [ CITATION Ken l 1033 ]. ... Most people view this novel as an anti-slavery effort, however Oroonoko ends with the vicious death of Prince Oroonoko...

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