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On Halloween, these young unwitting female consumers of craptastic media messages will take to the stage as slutty devils or slutty witches or slutty nurses, competing via self-objectification for the superficial attention of male schoolmates who eagerly anticipate and cheer on the spectacle.
Lori Day: The Gender Pendulum: How the Free Market Economy Creates Gender Polarization Lori Day 2011
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Performing masculinity, inverting gender paradigms, combining the “hardcore” elements of masculinity with the eroticism of female sexuality, maintaining a hypersexual and sexually appealing image, all the while lauding female promiscuity and self-objectification as means of erotic empowerment: the Bad Girl reigns supreme in contemporary Hip Hop.
PART 1/3: Nicki Minaj and the Paradox of Hip Hop Feminism « Gender Across Borders 2010
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I realize the trend cannot be reversed, but how to deal with all of this self-monitoring, self-objectification and the feeling of surveillance.
apophenia » Blog Archive » Public by Default, Private when Necessary 2010
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Paradoxically, the focus of our subjectivity has been a self-objectification, constantly reflecting the image (or images) that will get us what we want.
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A critical eye to messages in popular culture is helpful in recognizing and rejecting themes that promote self-objectification.
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The young women I speak with in my classes inherently understand what I mean by "self-objectification," even if they don't know the fancy academic term.
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How, then, can we combat our self-objectification and, by default, our second-class status as women?
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Rates of self-objectification have skyrocketed in the past decade, and young women are feeling the pressure to embrace and perform their own objectification with little critical analysis.
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Numerous studies conducted in the last decade have found that self-objectification is psychologically toxic.
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This seismic shift in the terrain in the battle for sex equality has come with little fanfare, but a massive price tag in the form of self-objectification.
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