208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
208 Pages
by
Routledge
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The second edition of Overcoming Objectification: A Carnal Ethics provides a critical analysis of the widely used (particularly in feminist philosophy) concept of objectification, and offers a new concept (derivatization) in its stead.
Cahill suggests an abandonment of objectification due to the concept’s dependence on a Kantian ideal of personhood, an ideal that fails to recognize... Read more
Preface to First Edition
Preface to Second Edition
1. Troubling Objectification
2. Derivatization
3. Masculine Sex Objects
4. Unsexed Women
5. Objectification and/in Sex Work
6. Sexual Violence and Objectification
7. Conclusion: Feeling Bodies
Biography
Ann J. Cahill is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished University Professor at Elon University. Her research interests lie at the intersection of feminist theory and philosophy of the body. She is the author of Rethinking Rape (2001) and, with Christine Hamel, Sounding Bodies: Identity, Injustice, and the Voice (2021), as well as articles on such topics as beautification, miscarriage, and the ethics of sexual desire.
