Feminist Theory

In 1975, the British feminist film theorist, Laura Mulvey, published a well known essay called 'Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema'. In this essay she established the 'male gaze', as Mulvey believed media audiences view women from a heterosexual male perspective. For feminists this meant: how men look at women, how women look at themselves and how women look at other women. 
               This issue of GQ showed Dianna Agron and Lea Michele in revealing clothes, with the assumption that men will buy the magazine. This magazine cover portrays both the girls as 'objects', whereas Corey Monteith has remained fully clothed whilst holding them in a sexual way.