objectification

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This adoration necessitated objectification, and from the 1970s onward, Updike’s fiction came in for a good deal of feminist scorn.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 10, 2025

In the tome of essays, author and educator Patricia Pisters discusses Madonna’s ability to transcend the traditional objectification and victimization that famous women are usually subject to.

From Salon • Aug. 23, 2025

“There were moments and lines,” Kim says, “that startled me in how prescient Katherine had been about Asian American identity, objectification, desire and how all these things often get tangled up.”

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 18, 2024

People said programmes are less likely to include the objectification of women, gender stereotypes or uncritical views of exploitative relationships.

From BBC • Oct. 31, 2023

The multiplicity of things in space and time, which collectively constitute the objectification of will, does not affect the will itself, which remains indivisible notwithstanding it.

From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Schopenhauer, Arthur