4- Application to Other Domains Flashcards
Nussabaum’s 7 features of objectification
- Instrumentality
- Denial of autonomy
- Inertness
- Fungibility
- Violability
- Ownership
- Denial of subjectivity
Langton’s 3 features of objectification
- Reduction to body
- Reduction to appearance
- Silencing
Nussabaum’s definition of objectification
Treating someone as an object
How did Langton extend the objectification definition?
To sexual objectification
When does sexual objectification occur?
When people’s body parts, bodies, or sexual functions are separated from their identity
What are people reduced to when sexually objectified?
Sexual instrument status
How are sexually objectified individuals treated?
As bodies existing only for the use and pleasure of others
What does the media often do to women?
Objectifies them
What is Bernard et al’s hypothesis?
Sexualised-body inversion hypothesis
What does the sexualised-body inversion hypothesis believe?
Inverted stimuli picturing humans are more difficult to be recognised than upright ones but objects aren’t affected by inversion
Why should sexualised women be easily recognised as women when presented upright as when inverted?
Sexualised women are perceived as objects so should be processed as objects
What was found when the sexualised-body inversion hypothesis was investigated?
A sexualised woman was more likely seen as a women when inverted but an inverted man was harder to recognise
How were objectified women perceived?
As having less mind and less morality
How were objectified men perceived?
As less competent and moral
What does sexual objectification change?
Perception and treatment
