Beauvoir on the Allure of Self-Objectification

Bauer, Nancy

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“…Furthermore, it is important to us to think of ourselves as autonomous, so our own construction of the situation will tend toward an explanation in which we acted autonomously, even if we did not. And there are narratives to hand that lend support to the view that autonomous women consent to sex in these situations, that it is fun to be raunchy, that this is not being complicit in one's own oppression or objectification, but what the modern woman does (see Bauer 2011). All these things make it hard to give any definitive account of how things really are.…”

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Sexual Refusal: The Fragility of Women's Authority

Mason

2023

Hypatia

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I expand on and defend a particular account of silencing that has been identified by Mary Kate McGowan. She suggests that one sort of silencing occurs when men do not think that women have the authority to refuse. I develop this proposal, arguing that it is usefully distinct from other forms of silencing, which attribute a radical misunderstanding to the perpetrator. Authority-silencing, by contrast, concedes that the perpetrator understands that the woman is trying to refuse. I examine the nature of authority and of refusal and argue that a normatively binding refusal requires authority: the normative capacity to make a determination that has a “because I said so” structure. Women's authority in this sense is fragile. Authority to refuse sexual advances can be lost through women's attire, how much they have had to drink, location, or their profession. This account makes sense of the way that perpetrators both do and do not understand sexual refusal, and explains how they are blameworthy despite their misunderstanding.

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Section: Ambivalent Consentmentioning

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Sexual Refusal: The Fragility of Women's Authority

Mason

2023

Hypatia

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“…This indicates how, though mind-body dualism is untenable as a metaphysical claim, the subject/object distinction remains as what Nancy Bauer calls a "phenomenological dilemma," which is lived out in the perspectival character of embodied, subjective experience. 4 An individual is bound to a first-person perspective, unable cognitively to grasp themselves as both subject and object. And yet we feel that we are both subject and object.…”

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The Ethical Significance of Being an Erotic Object

Ward

Anderson

2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Sexual Ethics

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Contemporary philosophical discussions of sexual ethics focus heavily on questions of autonomy, agency, and the moral power of consent. Since the late 1980s, moral and legal theorists have debated the conditions of moral validity for sexual consent, while feminist social and legal theorists have for even longer criticized social practices and institutional structures that undermine the agency of women to steer their sexual lives. Common across these discussions is the hope that respect for another's freedom, autonomy, or will can prevent the harm of objectification, that is, treating another merely as a sexual object or means. The task of sexual ethics, on the conventional view, becomes reconciling one's grasp of another as an object of erotic desire with the moral authority of their subjectivity. This generally involves placing their subjectivity above their status as object, so as to avoid the danger of objectification. However, we are always both subject and object in our encounters with others. As a result, theorists disregard essential, morally relevant features of intimacy when they locate the moral significance of another only in their active subjectivity. In this chapter, we argue for a methodological adjustment to sexual ethics that widens the narrow focus on freedom, autonomy, and agency to address the moral significance of being an erotic object as well. Drawing on phenomenology, particularly the insights of Simone de Beauvoir, we propose an approach that recognizes a constitutive ambiguity between the freedom appropriate to subjectivity and the phenomenon of being an erotic object in intimate encounters. While we are committed to the Preproof.

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An Analysis of the Socio-legal Framework Around Objectification of Women in India

Gupta¹

2021

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Objectification is the act of treating a person solely as an object of sexual desire. Sexual objectification is one of the biggest reasons why we live in a world flooded with sexualized images of women who are presented to be immaculate goddesses, which every girl aspires to emulate leading to mental health issues, loss of self-esteem, exploitation and harassment. Sexual objectification constitutes of two dimensions within itself, firstly, treating women as mere objects and secondly, dehumanizing, i.e. when women are considered to be mindless entities and their internal virtues are completely forgotten about. The current legal frameworks around the world take a limited view of the problem and deal with certain aspects of the problem while ignoring others. This study tries to holistically analyse the problems from a victim standpoint and does a cross cultural analysis with a special focus on laws in India and a brief overview about the laws in other countries like Belgium, France, Finland, Greece, Norway, South Africa, Spain, United States of America, United Kingdom, Nicaragua to identify areas where the legal frameworks need to be strengthened in order to prevent women from being objectified. It was noticed that most of these countries did not have a peculiar law against objectification. However, most of the western countries focus on protecting women against gender stereotypes in advertisements. This was also followed by a 22-pointer gap analysis on the Indian existing laws. Furthermore, the primary research encompassed a deliberation with a panel of socio-legal experts, whose ideas and suggestions have in turn been included in the paper. The research paper ends with recommendations which were devised after a lot of brainstorming.

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Beauvoir on the Allure of Self-Objectification

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Sexual Refusal: The Fragility of Women's Authority

Sexual Refusal: The Fragility of Women's Authority

The Ethical Significance of Being an Erotic Object

An Analysis of the Socio-legal Framework Around Objectification of Women in India

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