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Autore: |
Cahill Ann J.
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Titolo: |
Overcoming objectification : a carnal ethics / / Ann J. Cahill
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Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2011 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
Disciplina: | 306.7082 |
Soggetto topico: | Sex role |
Women - Identity | |
Women - Sexual behavior | |
Sex (Psychology) | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
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 |
Titolo autorizzato: | Overcoming objectification ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-136-85930-6 |
1-136-85931-4 | |
1-283-04242-8 | |
9786613042422 | |
0-203-83584-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910459893303321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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