The concept of gaze (often also calle the gaze or, in French, le regard), in analysing visual culture, is one that deals with how an audience views the people presented. The concept of the gaze became popular with the rise of postmodern philosophy and social theory and was first discussed by 1960s French intellectuals, namely Michel Foucault's description of the medical gaze and Lacan's analysis of the gaze's role in the mirror stage development of the human psyche. This concept is extended in the framework of feminist theory, where it can deal with how men look at women, how women look at themselves and other women, and the effects surrounding this. In addition, the concept of the "normative gaze" is used by critical theorists such as Cornel West to describe the way in which the idea of Eurocentric racial identity provides the lens through which other races are viewed and socially constructed. Laura Mulvey criticized such gazes (in films) as "male". Arising in the context of artistic practice, psychoanalysis and French feminism, Bracha Ettinger's notion of the feminine "matrixial gaze" contributes to the contemporary debates concerning the gaze in art.