Representational and Attitudinal Sexual Objectification

Feminist Philosophy Quarterly

Michael Cannon Rea¹ 

[1] University of Notre dame;

关键词: objectification;    silencing;    dehumanization;    Tiptree;    science fiction;    Keats;   

DOI  :  10.5206/fpq/2019.4.7235

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

“James Tiptree Jr.” is a pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon, US Air Force intelligence officer, CIA analyst, experimental psychologist, and one of the most important and highly acclaimed science fiction writers of the twentieth century. Sheldon’s work as Tiptree (both fiction and nonfiction) deals with a variety of important feminist concerns—among them, sexism, misogyny, objectification, sexual assault, the “otherness” of women, and silencing. This paper explores in a philosophical mode some of the important insights about objectification conveyed in one of Tiptree’s most well-known stories, “’And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side.” These insights lead naturally to a characterization of sexual objectification that both avoids problems with standard philosophical characterizations and also sheds important light on the relationship between objectification and silencing.

【 授权许可】

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