Volume-II, Issue-II, November 2025
Novel Insights A Peer-Reviewed Quarterly Multidisciplinary Research Journal |
Volume-II, Issue-II, November 2025 |
Women’s Objectification in Music Videos: A Study through the Lens of Male Gaze and Social Construction of Reality Himanjali Kalita, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Government Model College, Deithor, Karbi Anglong, Assam, India Dr. Paramita Dey, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Cotton University, Guwahati, Asaam, India Email: kalitahimanjali55@gmail.com |
Received: 08.10.2025 | Accepted: 23.11.2025 | Published Online: 30.11.2025 |
Page No: 101-110 | DOI: 10.69655/novelinsights.vol.2.issue.02W.044 | |
Abstract | ||
Objectification of women refers to the process of understanding women as an object by focusing on specific body parts, violating women’s dignity and respect. The portrayal of women as an object of entertainment recreates the whole idea of beauty for a woman leading to a construction of reality which is accepted and internalized in the society. A woman’s beauty is judged by society according to this constructed reality based on physical appearance, which completely neglects a woman’s individual worth. Failure to fulfill the set standard of beauty leads to dissatisfaction with their bodies, anxiety, low confidence, exclusion etc. In this process women’s freedom over their own body is controlled by patriarchal society. In this paper, an attempt has been made to understand women’s sexual objectification in popular music videos and its impact on society at large. Keywords: objectification of women, male gaze, social construction of reality, gender roles, music videos | ||