How Long to Read Ogling Ladies

How Long Does it Take to Read Ogling Ladies?

It takes the average reader 3 hours and 10 minutes to read Ogling Ladies by Sandra Lindemann Summers

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

In the European Middle Ages, the harm a person’s gaze could cause was greatly feared. A stare was considered an act of aggression; intense gazing was believed to exert immense power over the individual observed. The love of looking, or scopophilia, is a common motif among female figures in medieval art and literature where it is usually expressed as a motherly or sexually interested gaze--one sanctioned, the other forbidden. Sandra Summers investigates these two major variants of female voyeurism in exemplary didactic and courtly literature by medieval German authors. Setting the motif against the period’s dominant patriarchal ethos and its almost exclusive pattern of male authorship, Summers argues that the maternal gaze was endorsed as a stabilizing influence while the erotic gaze was condemned as a threat to medieval order. Summers examines whether medieval artists and writers invented the idea of “ogling,” or whether they were simply recording a behavioral practice common at the time. She investigates how the act of ogling altered the narrative trajectory of female characters, and she also considers how it may have affected the regulation and restriction of women during Europe’s Middle Ages. Drawing upon contemporary gender studies, women’s studies, film studies, and psychology, Summers argues that the female gaze ultimately governs social formation. The exploration of the female gaze in period literature transcends medieval scholarship and impacts our understanding of the broader problem of gender perceptions and social structuring in Western civilization.

How long is Ogling Ladies?

Ogling Ladies by Sandra Lindemann Summers is 186 pages long, and a total of 47,616 words.

This makes it 63% the length of the average book. It also has 58% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Ogling Ladies Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 4 hours and 20 minutes to read Ogling Ladies aloud.

What Reading Level is Ogling Ladies?

Ogling Ladies is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

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