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The Male Gaze

Noun

the perspective of a typical heterosexual man (= a man who is sexually attracted to women), who is viewed as tending to treat women as sexual objects

Her work as a film-maker rejects the male gaze and embraces gender fluidity.

Sanskrit equivalent

पुरुषदृष्टिः/पुरुषावलोकनदृष्टिः

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