The 1960s and 1970s Civil Rights Movement raised fundamental challenges of western institutions and social order. The feminist scholars working in the field of pop culture and visual culture are said to be some of the most radical challengers of western social structures (Wanzo 651). These feminist scholars were primarily interested in examining canonical literature, art and film for practices of representation of gender and sexuality. Furthermore, these feminist scholars seek to analyze how cultural productions influence social relations, gendered interactions and individual identities and desires, while disclaiming that these productions actively cause social problems, but rather that they reflect a culture’s ideology (Wanzo 651-652). G.
