If the lukewarm reaction to Shelley’s retelling suggests that society in her day was not yet ready for those minor female characters to take centre stage, then what does the current enthusiasm for reassessment imply? Clare Wright: “We are firmly in an era where the idea of women’s voice, women’s perspective and women’s truth is at the front of the cultural and political agenda.″⁣ Credit:Susan Papazian “We are firmly in an era where the idea of women’s voice, women’s perspective and women’s truth is at the front of the cultural and political agenda,” says Clare Wright, author and professor of history at La Trobe University. If the male gaze aligns the viewer with masculine concepts and characters, these works put women at the centre of the story. Rather than treating women as the object of a default masculine gaze, they position women as the subject. We only need look at our cultural mythology and ask: where are the women in these stories?

Source: Libya Today January 26, 2023 01:44 UTC