![]() ![]() Thus she turns herself into an object - and most particularly an object of vision: a sight. ![]() The surveyor of woman in herself is male: the surveyed female. This determines not only most relations between men and women but also the relation of women to themselves. One might simplify this by saying: men act and women appear. Her own sense of being in herself is supplanted by a sense of being appreciated as herself by another. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to men, is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life. Ways of Seeing: Based on the BBC Television Series (Penguin Books for Art) Paperback Decemby John Berger (Author) 2,647 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 5.88 Read with Our Free App Hardcover 294.29 11 Used from 50.94 3 Collectible from 125. Through examples of Art History Berger shows how our very sense of sight has been transformed. John Berger presents his insights on how people see. And so she comes to consider the surveyor and the surveyed within her as the two constituent yet always distinct elements of her identity as a woman. Ways of Seeing: With John Berger, Anya Bostock, Eva Figes, Jane Kenrick. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. Whilst she is walking across a room or whilst she is weeping at the death of her father, she can scarcely avoid envisaging herself walking or weeping. ![]() She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. ![]()
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