Representational and attitudinal sexual objectification : philosophical insights from James Tiptree, Jr.’s "And I awoke and found me here on the Cold Hill’s Side'
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“James Tiptree Jr.” is a pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon, US Air Force intelligence officer, CIA analyst, experimental psychologist, and one of the most important and highly acclaimed science fiction writers of the twentieth century. Sheldon’s work as Tiptree (both fiction and nonfiction) deals with a variety of important feminist concerns—among them, sexism, misogyny, objectification, sexual assault, the “otherness” of women, and silencing. This paper explores in a philosophical mode some of the important insights about objectification conveyed in one of Tiptree’s most well-known stories, “’And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side.” These insights lead naturally to a characterization of sexual objectification that both avoids problems with standard philosophical characterizations and also sheds important light on the relationship between objectification and silencing.
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Rea , M 2019 , ' Representational and attitudinal sexual objectification : philosophical insights from James Tiptree, Jr.’s "And I awoke and found me here on the Cold Hill’s Side' ' , Feminist Philosophy Quarterly , vol. 5 , no. 4 , 1 . https://doi.org/10.5206/fpq/2019.4.7235
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Feminist Philosophy Quarterly
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Peer reviewed
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2371-2570Type
Journal article
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Copyright (c) 2019 Michael Cannon Rea. Open Access article. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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