Men act and women appear. Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at. In John Berger's Ways of seeing, he argues that a woman’s social presence is very different from that of a man. Men treat women as objects. Men survey women, and how a woman presents herself determine how she will be treated.
In European oil painting, nude is an ever-recurring subject that particularly manifests how women have been seen as a sight. In today’s discussion, we will take a closer look at some of these paintings and discuss how certain ways of seeing construct women's sense of themselves and the world.
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