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  1. Sep 2020
    1. is). The concept of na- ture gendered as female is also central to the cultural meanings that attach to the women and anim

      This seemed really familiar to me and then I remembered every Disney movie. The princess is connected to nature and animals, and the prince finds her.

      1. I find it interesting that it's noted "that there is no gender-neutral term to convey the idea of a person who achieves gloire." (p.181) Great man is the highest level of success, so even people who don't identify with the male sex or gender want to reach that level but aren't able to. There should be a new word/s for a person reaching a high level of success created by the marginalized people! Then there will be great people other than just the cis-male.

      2. I see that there's this double standard again for female artists. A soft touch to painting and an artificial/decorative style was seen as feminine. Where as a strong touch of and a natural/truthful style of painting was seen as masculine. But if you painted too soft your skills were completely dismissed and on the other hand if you had a "masculine" touch to painting it was praised. Labille-Guiard was labeled a man because of her painting style. Was this a way for artists and critics to say Labille-Guiard's skill is of a man's but she isn't a man so she'll never be a great artist/man?

    1. I wasn't able to use the highlighting tool, so I thought I would try Page Notes: Sometimes I can't remember the time period of Cinquecento or Seicento, if you even know they are time periods, so here are the definitions.

      Cinquecento - The 16th Century. Years 1500-1599.

      Seicento - The 17th Century. Years 1600-1699.

    1. and the gaze, largely investigated so far in terms of psychoanalysis and film theory

      It's interesting how they mention film theory, because I'm taking a film class right now and we talked about how the person facing or not facing the camera evokes different emotions. A person is in profile when they are looking at the frame from the left or the right, so half of their face is visible and the other half is not.This makes it seem as if the person is unaware of being observed, or lost in his or her own thoughts.