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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459893303321

Autore

Cahill Ann J.

Titolo

Overcoming objectification : a carnal ethics / / Ann J. Cahill

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2011

ISBN

1-136-85930-6

1-136-85931-4

1-283-04242-8

9786613042422

0-203-83584-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (196 p.)

Collana

Routledge research in gender and society ; ; 27

Disciplina

306.7082

Soggetti

Sex role

Women - Identity

Women - Sexual behavior

Sex (Psychology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1 Troubling Objectification; 2 Derivatization; 3 Masculine Sex Objects; 4 Unsexed Women; 5 Objectification and/in Sex Work; 6 Sexual Violence and Objectification; Conclusion: Feeling Bodies; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Objectification is a foundational concept in feminist theory, used to analyze such disparate social phenomena as sex work, representation of women's bodies, and sexual harassment. However, there has been an increasing trend among scholars of rejecting and re-evaluating the philosophical assumptions which underpin it. In this work, Cahill suggests an abandonment of the notion of objectification, on the basis of its dependence on a Kantian ideal of personhood. Such an ideal fails to recognize sufficiently the role the body plays in personhood, and thus results in an implicit vilification of t