Gendered norms proscribed the male gaze on women in public street space

Evidence

No gentleman is ever guilty of the offense of standing on street corners and the steps of hotels or other public places and boldly scrutinizing every lady who passes. — Lyn H. Lofland, World of Strangers_ Order and Action in…, 675

Categorization

• XREF: Inverts the flâneur ideal — Cole’s Julius-style watching is here codified as vulgar, linking Lofland’s social-control reading to the psychically detached observer. — connects to: Mulvey’s male-gaze theory still explains media power despite critiques — Theresa M. Senft, Camgirls: Celebrity and Community in…, 323; Suburban gender norms structured how the mobilizing movement operated. — Matthew D. Lassiter, The Suburban Origins of “Color-Blind”…, 68; Church women mapped gender onto church-versus-street spatial oppositions — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 931