feminism

• Social construction is an invention of a given society, created within specific institutions and culture, and is dependent on historical, political and economic conditions, which can lead to change.
• The male gaze is where men look at women depicted in visible arts and literature from a masculine, heterosexual perspective as an object of pleasure for men.
• Conventional beauty is society's ideas of good look, which may be deemed as conventional beautiful, and are cultural ideas.
• Patriarchy is a systematic domination of women by men of all society institutions, and is a form of male dominance.
• Gender identity and a sense of self is constructed by the patriarchy.
• Processes of socialisation reproduce and reinforce male dominance, making it difficult to construct gender identities outside of conventional stereotypes.
• The male gaze becomes so embedded in culture that women internalise stereotyped ideals of beauty and sexual attractiveness.
• Gender inequalities are reproduced and legitimised.