Sex Gender and Sexuality in Virtual and Actual Space

Abstract

The gaze was conceptualized in relation to sex gender and the representation of sex, initially in the field of cinema, although as the last chapter suggested, increasingly the concept has been applied to a whole range of fields within popular culture, which has, as many feminist critics noted, become more and more sexualized. Rather than diminishing in light of political gains relating to gender equality and diversity and the promotion of equal opportunities, popular culture has become more sexualized and even, as some critics have suggested, pornogrified (Levy, 2006; Paul, 2005), which has led to more activism to combat the more negative aspects of this trend (Bindel, 2015; Long, 2014; MacKay, 2015). Visual culture and the politics of in/visibility have become more and not less important in the twenty-first century.