Wednesday, October 22, 2008

In Berger's article he mentions (pg 280) "woman's self being split into two. A woman must continually watch herself. She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself....From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually." This idea of a woman having within her two selves: a surveyor and surveyed is a social and cultural construct. Can women learn to act differently without the need to continually imagine what others view them as? Or As Wylie mentions Wilson's view, is it "now so entrenched in the fabric of our society" that it couldn't change easily. There is a distinction between subject, surveyor, powerful and the other, surveyed, powerless. Is this a clear cut line and does it need to be drawn? Where are women in this distinction: if women are surveyors and surveyed, and considered the other because in some views we allow it?

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