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- Title
What is Objectification?
- Authors
Papadaki, Lina
- Abstract
Objectification is a notion central to contemporary feminist theory. It has famously been associated with the work of anti-pornography feminists Catharine MacKinnon and Andrea Dworkin, and more recently with the work of Martha Nussbaum. However, objectification is a notion that has not yet been adequately defined. It has been used rather vaguely to refer to a broad range of cases involving, in some way or another, the treatment of a person (usually a woman) as an object. My purpose in this paper is to offer a plausible understanding of objectification. I do that by focusing on the work of four prominent thinkers: Immanuel Kant, and contemporary feminists Catharine MacKinnon, Andrea Dworkin and Martha Nussbaum. Through drawing on these thinkers' conceptions of objectification, I am finally led to a more complete and coherent understanding of this notion.
- Subjects
SEXUAL objectification; FEMINISM; DWORKIN, Andrea, 1946-2005; NUSSBAUM, Martha Craven, 1947-; MACKINNON, Catharine; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; FEMINIST theory
- Publication
Journal of Moral Philosophy, 2010, Vol 7, Issue 1, p16
- ISSN
1740-4681
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/174046809X12544019606067