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op·po·si·tion·al gaze
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Oppositional gaze
The "Oppositional gaze", first coined by feminist, scholar and social activist bell hooks in her 1992 essay collection Black Looks: Race and Representation, is a type of looking relation that involves the political rebellion and resistance against the repression of a black person's right to look. As hooks states, white slave-owners would punish their slaves regularly simply for looking at them. Hooks' essay is a work of feminist film theory that criticizes both the male gaze through Michel Foucault's 'relations of power' and the prevalence of white feminism in feminist film theory. The oppositional gaze encompasses modes of looking that employ reflexive gazes such as: The shared gaze The repressed gaze The phallocentric gaze The black male gaze The interrogating gaze
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of oppositional gaze in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of oppositional gaze in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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