Laura Mulvey Quote

Woman, then, stands in patriarchal culture as a signifier for the male other, bound by a symbolic order in which man can live out his fantasies and obsessions through linguistic command by imposing them on the silent image of a woman still tied to her place as the bearer of meaning, not maker of meaning.

Visual and Other Pleasures (ed. Springer, 1989) - ISBN: 9781349197989