Objectification Of Women Essay

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Objectification of women has existed for as long as women have been used for men’s sexual pleasure. Some early examples of the sexual objectification of women include strip tease shows, brothels and pornographic art. The phrase “sexual objectification” has been around since the 1970s but recently, it has been used more and more thanks to the feminists. Hypothesis
Women are sexually objectified and/or exploited because of humans’ upbringing and their daily exposure of to the social media. Null Hypothesis
There’s no relation of why women are objectified and/or sexually exploited, in regards to the social media and/or their upbringing.
Objectification Theory. The objectification theory (Fredrickson & Roberts, 1997) postulates that many women are treated as an object (sexually objectified) and are often valued for their use by others. It occurs when a woman’s body parts are separated from …show more content…

Instrumentality: the treatment of a person as a tool for the objectifier's purposes;
2. Denial of autonomy: the treatment of a person as lacking in autonomy and self-determination;
3. Inertness: the treatment of a person as lacking in agency, and perhaps also in activity;
4. Fungibility: the treatment of a person as interchangeable with other objects;
5. Violability: the treatment of a person as lacking in boundary-integrity;
6. Ownership: the treatment of a person as something that is owned by another (can be bought or sold);
7. Denial of subjectivity: the treatment of a person as something whose experiences and feelings (if any) need not be taken into account.
Rae Langton (2009, 228-229) added three more features to Nussbaum’s list:
8. Reduction to body: the treatment of a person as identified with their body, or body parts;
9. Reduction to appearance: the treatment of a person primarily in terms of how they look, or how they appear to the

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