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“I spent so much of my life shut down from the abuse of my childhood. I didn't have friends and I didn't have connections with people.”

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Bonnie St. John

Bonnie St. John is a renowned ski racer, born on November 7, 1964. She achieved significant success in the early 1980s and won gold medals at the 1984 Winter Olympics. St. John's career was marked by challenges, as she had her legs amputated following a severe accident in her youth. Despite these hardships, she persevered and became a legend in sports with her exceptional athletic abilities and indomitable spirit. more

“One absolutely crucial change is that feminist film theory is today an academic subject to be studied and taught. "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema" was a political intervention, primarily influenced by the Women's Liberation Movement and, in my specific case, a Women's Liberation study group, in which we read Freud and realised the usefulness of psychoanalytic theory for a feminist project.”

“By now, a younger generation of women participate in extremely lively debates in which questions of gender, sexuality and representation on screens and across media are approached from perspectives that had not yet been articulated in the 1970s.”

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Author:Laura Mulvey

“I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only well established but is now also attracting interest from young women, including teenagers and pre-teens. But a new interest is also symptomatic of the failure of the feminist project and the need for its renewal.”

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Author:Laura Mulvey

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