Title: Authority in Jeopardy: Gender Trouble in Alcott's “My Mysterious Mademoiselle”
Abstract: Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes 1Laura Mulvey argues in her chapter entitled, "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," that "the determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure." That the "mysterious mademoiselle" is actually a young man disguised as a woman obviously complicates the notion of the gaze, essentially exposing it as a socially constructed sham. 2It is impossible for the reader reliably to discern what happens in the dark, but clearly before that, George and his nephew interacted in a romantic way. Clearly, a line has been crossed.
Publication Year: 2013
Publication Date: 2013-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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