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Karma Eaters: The Politics of Food and Fat in Women's Land Communities in the United States
Performing Deviance in Front Stage Spaces: Prince Roger Nelson and the Boundary Fluidity of Masculinity
Objectification
This entry considers the question âWhat is objectification?â After preliminary remarks about different methodological approaches, several possible answers, or groups of answers, are introduced, separated out in terms of broad themes. Each is situated in relation to historical and more contemporary authors. These themes are: objectification as instrumentalization; objectification as reduction to the body; objectification as negation of subjectivity or agency; objectification as naturalization. Objectification is considered in relation to both sexual and racial contexts. Finally, these themes are discussed in relation to the wider category of âmind suppression,â and its relation to objectification in the familiar context of imagery