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The Spectacle is Vulnerable: Miss World, 1970

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Visual and Other Pleasures

Part of the book series: Language, Discourse, Society ((LDS))

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Margarita Jimenez and I wrote this account of the Miss World demonstration in Shrew (the London Women’s Liberation Workshop journal that each group edited in turn). We decided to use our very different styles of writing to give the piece two levels; she wrote a first person account of events, and I wrote an impersonal comment on our action. The piece was, of course, discussed with the whole group, collectively edited and published anonymously.

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© 1989 Laura Mulvey

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Mulvey, L. (1989). The Spectacle is Vulnerable: Miss World, 1970. In: Visual and Other Pleasures. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19798-9_1

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