Married, a female loses her identity. ... Only upon her wedding day the girl received a formal name and, thus, an official identity within the community she lived. All the same, the identity she received is the one of her husband. ... Indeed, in contrast to Tommy James, Lennon allows the female an identity separate from the male. ... As equals, male and females have the right on a separate identity and the right to differ. ...

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From dog-fighting in Mexico to issues of transsexuality in Cuba, contemporary Latin American cinema covers a diverse array of topics. Lauren Mulvey, British feminist film theorist, uses pyschoanaylitics to offer a feminist critique of all classical narrative cinema. She establishes that narrative cinema is viewed from the male gaze and women are coded for their "to-be-looked-at-ness". She offers that female characters add nothing or very little to actual elements of plot and character but rather are subjected to male scopophilia, the fetishistic and voyeuristic, due to phallocentrici...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate