Ways of seeing - Female nude

After watching the documentary Ways of seeing - Female nude by John Berger I wrote down some quotes and conclusions from it I thought they might be useful for the essay.

'Men dream of women, women dream of themselves being dreamt of. men look at women, women look at themselves been looked at.'

'Women constantly meet glances which act like mirrors reminding them of how they look or how they should look. Behind every glance is a judgment. Sometimes the glance they meet is their own, reflected back from a real mirror. […] She is almost continually accompanied by her own image of herself. 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. From earliest childhood she has been taught and persuaded to survey herself continually. She has to survey everything she is and everything she does because how she appears to others and in particular how she appears to men is of crucial importance for what is normally thought of as the success of her life.'

'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.

Pictures of naked women are to please the spectator. Looks of paintings and photographs seducing men they don't know. Spectator has to be the owner of that passion. Looking available.

The way men saw women before is how women see themselves today.

Women have different uniforms for different purposes depending on what they want to express, not like men. Even being naked is the uniform, in a way, as sexual pleasure. Nudity and freedom can't be related.