Features of Objectification

Ownership: ‘It's Like I’m a Piece of Property Owned By the State’

Treating a person as if they are owned by another is one of the 10 features of objectification.

Sep 9

Reduction to Body: ‘What is a woman? She is a womb, some say.’

‘When objectified, women are treated as bodies—and in particular, as bodies that exist for the use and pleasure of others’

Aug 27 • S. P. Rogers

Fungibility: Exchangeable Parents and the 'Domestic Supply of Infants'

To treat a human being as fungible is to treat that human being as a mere thing.

Aug 11 • S. P. Rogers

Reduction to Appearance: Baby Bumps and the Aesthetic Enjoyment of Other People's Uteruses

Reduction to Appearance is one of the 10 ways of treating human beings as mere things.

Aug 3 • S. P. Rogers

Ten Features of Objectification

OBJECTIFICATION is the seeing and/or treating of someone as an object—especially women. In her seminal 1995 essay, philosopher Martha Nussbaum…

Jul 30 • S. P. Rogers

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