Revisiting the Gaze

Morna Laing is Assistant Professor in Fashion Studies at The New School, Parsons Paris, France. She is the author of Picturing the Woman-child: Feminism, Fashion and the Female Gaze (Bloomsbury, 2020). Jacki Willson is a University Academic Fellow in Performance and Culture in the School of Performance and Cultural Industries at the University of Leeds, UK. She is the author of The Happy Stripper: Pleasures & Politics of the New Burlesque (2008) and Being Gorgeous: Feminism, Sexuality and the Pleasures of the Visual (2015).

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Notes on Contributors

1. Introduction - Morna Laing and Jacki Willson

Part I - Looking: The Optic and the Haptic

2. Double Acts: Oscillating Between Optical and Haptic Visuality in a Digital Age - Maria Walsh and Mo Throp
3. The Ambient Gaze: Sensory Atmosphere and the Dressed Body - Sara Chong Kwan
4. The Veiled Body: The Alienated system of ‘Looking’ in Post-revolutionary Iran (1979-present) - Azadeh Fatehrad

Part II - Looking Through Neoliberalism

5. Becoming in the Eyes of Others: The Relational Gaze in Boudoir Photography - Ilya Parkins
6. The Dissecting Gaze: Fashioned Bodies on Social Networking Sites - Dawn Woolley
7. Making Lemonade?: Beyoncé’s Pregnancies and the Postfeminist Media Gaze - Maureen Brewster

Part III - Looking at the 'Other'

8. Looking Fat in a Slender World: The Dialectic of Seeing and Becoming in Jen Davis’ Eleven Years - Lauren Downing Peters
9. Re-reading the Queer Female Gaze in the 1990s: Spectatorship, Fashion and the Duality of Identification and Desire - Catherine Baker
10. Killer Looks: Marlene McCarty’s Murder Girls - Rosa Nogués

Index