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



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Autore: Cahill Ann J. Visualizza persona
Titolo: Overcoming objectification : a carnal ethics / / Ann J. Cahill Visualizza cluster
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)
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  Visualizza cluster
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.: 9910785568703321
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Serie: Routledge Research in Gender and Society