The Body Flâneur: Body-Biased Gaze and Ocular Inspections of Women’s Bodies in Swedish Serial Literature, 1850–1890
Journal: Cultural and Social History
Year: 2023

The article analyses the male body-biased gaze in serial fiction in the Swedish press 1850-1890, by using the concept of the body flneur as an analogy to the well-known city flneur.The normative construct of the body flneur was a discursive practice, normalising the male gaze in media representations in period still poor on visual representations.It gave authors an opportunity to describe, in detail and in an educated manner, female bodies as aesthetic objects.It had a twofold educational functi