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
Emma Beddington wrote that there is "plenty to horrify" in the series, including the physical toll on the team members' bodies, the "abysmal pay" and "the objectification".
From BBC ● Jul. 13, 2024
“We also prohibit content promoting exploitation, nonconsent, objectification, sexualization or harm to minors, and obscene behaviors,” X said.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 3, 2024
In songs like "Doll Parts" and "Jennifer's Body," she explores themes of objectification and agency, challenging conventional notions of femininity and sexuality.
From Salon ● Apr. 11, 2024
Human beauty was explained above as the fullest objectification of will at the highest grade at which it is knowable.
From The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) by Arthur Schopenhauer
In this contemplation the mind is filled with pure intellectual forms, the ``Platonic Ideas'' as he calls them, which are objectifications of the will at a certain grade of completeness of representation.
From The Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia Volume 1 of 28 by Project Gutenberg
