Jütten, Timo (2016) 'Sexual Objectification.' Ethics, 127 (1). 27 - 49. ISSN 0014-1704

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Abstract

According to Martha Nussbaum, objectification is essentially a form of instrumentalization or use. I argue that this instrumentalization account fails to capture the distinctive harms and wrongs of sexual objectification, because it does not explain the relationship between instrumentalization and the processes of social stereotyping that make it possible. I develop an imposition account of sexual objectification that provides such an explanation and, therefore, should be preferred over the instrumentalization account. It draws on a contrast between imposition and self-presentation and explains why sexual objectification, understood as the imposition of sex object status on women, is harmful and wrong.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Humanities > Philosophy and Art History, School of
Depositing User:	Jim Jamieson
Date Deposited:	20 Jul 2016 09:08
Last Modified:	28 Feb 2018 13:15
URI:	http://repository.essex.ac.uk/id/eprint/17279

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