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objectification

[uhb-jek-tuh-fi-kay-shuhn] / əbˌdʒɛk tə fɪˈkeɪ ʃən /


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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

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

Before Hoàng’s appearance at Elliott Bay Book Company, we spoke to the University of Washington graduate about the power of friendship, objectification of women, toxic masculinity and seeing the beauty of where you live.

From Seattle Times ● Jul. 12, 2023

Thus beauty is constituted by the objectification of pleasure.

From The Sense of Beauty Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory by George Santayana

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




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