gaze
nounEtymology From Middle English gasen; akin to Swedish dialectal gasa and Gothic 𐌿𐍃𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌾𐌰𐌽 (usgaisjan, “to terrify”).
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A fixed look; a look of eagerness, wonder, or admiration; a continued look of attention.
- Captain Edward Carlisle, soldier as he was, martinet as he was, felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, her alluring smile; he could not tell what this prisoner might do.1910, Emerson Hough, “A Lady in Company”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
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Archaic The object gazed on.
- Those howers that with gentle worke did frame / The louely gaze where euery eye doth dwell.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
- Made of my Enemies the ſcorn and gaze;1671, John Milton, “Samson Agonistes, […].”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J[ohn] M[acock] for John Starkey […], →OCLC, page 11:
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Human sciences, Medicine, Psychoanalysis, Psychology, Sciences In Lacanian psychoanalysis, the relationship of the subject with the desire to look and awareness that one can be viewed.
- She counters the tendency to focus on critical strategies of resisting the male gaze, raising the issue of the female spectator.2003, Amelia Jones, The feminism and visual culture reader, page 35:
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Media In compounds, Usually The framework in which a subject is presented, determined by the biases of the creator and/or audience.
- hooks is right to argue that within this culture the ethnographic conceit of a neutral gaze will always be a white gaze, an unmarked white gaze, one which passes its own perspective off as the omniscient1993, Judith Butler, Bodies that Matter: On the Discursive Limits of "sex":
- The American panorama is indicative of the nation's expansion westward and an example of the American gaze.2005, Eva Zetterberg Pettersson, The Old World Journey: National Identity in Four American Novels from 1960 to 1973:
- Derived terms
- female gaze, foregaze, gazehound, male gaze, Nancy Reagan gaze, sidegaze, upgaze