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"Sandra's vision is emphasized in ways that place viewers in radically new territory with respect to the capacity for a female gaze at the male body."
-- Lee Parpart


Source:
Parpart, Lee. "Cowards, Bullies, and Cadavers: Feminist Re-Mappings of the Passive Male Body in English-Canadian and Québécois Cinema." In Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, edited by Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow, and Janine Marchessault. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999. (p. 262)