Magic Mike XXL adds new iconography to the intersectionally raced, gendered, and very classed pleasures found within the women's film through its attention to the centrality of women's sexual desires vis-à-vis the deployment of male bodies who serve to maintain that pleasure.
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“Any God Worth Believing in Sends You Dudes in Thongs When in Need”: Exploring Women’s Pleasure in Magic Mike XXL
Gazes, Pleasure, and the Failure of Magic Mike
Though it's marketed as a film that promotes the female gaze, Magic Mike's message is a reprimand and a ridicule of the very women whose money it desperately seeks.
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