Opening statements ideas

As discussed with Sonny-jay Woodhouse before i have started to look for quotes to begin my audio. researching feminism and the male gaze i have decided i would like to extract my quote from Mulveys book 'Visual and other pleasure'. I have hear looked up relevant chapters and extracted the statements below. I could have gone on forever doing this as virtually the whole book is relevant now and to my project but below are just a few gems i will be sending as a voice recording to get worked into the audio. I have bolded the ones that i think will defiantly work.
ALL extracted From Laura Mulveys "Visual And Other Pleasures"

" Now I'm looking for the ideal man to marry"

"Born to be defined by their physical attributes, born to give birth, or if born pretty , born unlucky; a condition which makes it possible and acceptable , within bougeois ethic, for girls to parade ,smiling silently, to be judged on the merits of their figures and face"

"Pretty girls dont have those problems, that is , the problems that plain girls have in finding a husband or making a successful career.Womens liberation girls must be plain, because only plain girls would have an interest in attacking the system." Bob Hope

"Women may seem to be the subjects of an endless parade of pornographic fantasies, jokes, day-dreams and so on, but fundamentally most male fantasy is a closed loop dialouge with himself."

"They are being turned all the time into objects of display, to be looked at and gazed at and stared at by men."

" Ways of seeing and pleasure in looking"

" The human face, The human body,the relationship between the human form and its surroundings"

"In a world ordered by sexual imbalance, pleasure in looking has been splitbetween actice/male and passive/ female. The determining male gaze projects its fantasy onto the female figure, which is styled accordingly. In their traditional exhibitionist role women are simutaneously looked at and displayed, with their appearance coded for strong visual and erotic impact so that they can be said to connote to-be-looked-at-ness . women displayed as sexual object is the leitmotif of erotic spectacle: from pin ups to strip tease, from ziegfeld to busby berkeley,she holds the look, and plays to and signifies male desire."

" The fantasy of a privileged insight that tears the mask away from perceived reality gives way to another reality, that of the mask itself and reality of fantasy ."

"The aesthetic qualities of the photography are to be sought in its power to lay bare the realities."

Voice recording

I was asked to send the audio clips via an apple i phone because that's what Sonny is used to working with . I had three women including myself to read the statements above so that he had a variety to choose from. I also got all three subjects to say the words 'Hashtag' and 'oh my god'. This was an interesting exercise to partake in because until you read Mulveys book aloud you don't realise how difficult it is to say. Defiantly a mouthful so this took much longer than anticipated but we got there in the end. Here are just a selection of the audio clips we sent off so you can compare how these sound to the finished audio.