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Gendering Surveillance Theory:

Lessons from the eGirls ProjectValerie Steeves

Jane BaileySurveillance & Society

Conference25 April 2014

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Laura Mulvey

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radical

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Hollywood

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objectified

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women

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to be looked at

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subjectivizing men

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male gaze

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Michele White

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online social media

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disruptive

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“to-be-looked-atness”

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alternatives to discriminatory

stereotypesSenft

Dixon-Scott

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transgress socially-imposed modesty norms

Koskela

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feministcritical racequeer theory

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in/visibilityobjectification

otherized identities

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watchedintelligible

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doing surveillance studies

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gendersexual identityintersections

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raceAboriginality

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watched

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heightened state and institutional monitoring

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path-breaking

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panoptic

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empowered few

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objectified many

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Brighenti

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spectrum of visibility

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multi-directional

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seebe seen

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interpersonalgovernmental/institutional

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bedroom culture

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self representation

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producers

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panoptic

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synoptic

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interpersonal watching

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surveillance studies

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power relations

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individual rights and liberties

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otherized

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non-institutional

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discriminatory myths & attitudes

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de-liberating

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gendering of surveillance studies

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“artificially abstract bodies, identities, and

interactions from social contexts in ways that both

obscure and aggravate gender and other social

inequalities”Monahan, 2009, 287

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super visible

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normalized

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panopticsynoptic

interpersonal watching

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surveillant forces

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rupture

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Mulvey

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body

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replicated & amplified

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commercial surveillance

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family member and peer surveillance

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visual nature

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bedroom culture

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permeated

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online performances

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interaction of panoptic and synoptic gazes

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mainstream stereotypes

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commercial

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panoptic and synoptic merge

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razor thin

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the slut line

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“more girls everywhere trying to be like the

prettiest girls on magazines and stuff”

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“It’ll make you feel like crap. It’s like, just again

setting in, why can’t I look like that? Why can’t I be like that? Why don’t I

have these friends? Why am I not popular? [It] just

drains everybody”

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“You’re like, oh man, I don’t look like that, um, but I could some day you know, but you just, you just don’t right now. So you might get down on

yourself because of that”

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“change my body”

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“I think social media is great at giving girls this

fantasy world. But at the same time, I think it’s also really easy to sort of make themselves feel really bad

about themselves”

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“I used to think, oh cool, I got 10 likes, and then you

look at girls who look revealing and they have

50 [from guys]. And you’re like, oh, I wonder

why…”

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“confidence”

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“They’re going to get feedback like, ‘Wow,

you’re hot’. Definitely from guys. ‘Wow,you’re

sexy!’ ‘Damn, what I would do if I as here,’ and, like, all that kind of stuff”

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“And from girls, you’re going to get, um … from

their best friends, probably, ‘Oh my God, you

look gorgeous! You look so skinny!’”

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“And you’re going to get, from girls that don’t like her, ‘Wow, you’re a slut!’,

you know, like, ‘You’re nothing but a whore!’, like, ‘Put some clothes

on!’”

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“A girl, let’s say she’s, I don’t know, with a bunch of guys in a sexual pose, or … has tons of booze

around her, or something”

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“Someone will write a comment that will be, like, kind of subtle but showing

that it’s inappropriate”

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“And a lot of people will join in, and you can get, like, up to 75 comments and everyone’s joining in

and fighting”

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“Guys can get away with murder”

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“You’re fat. You make me look good.”

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