Abstract
The objective of this paper is to show that pornography dehumanizes women through essentialization. First, I argue that certain acts of subject-essentialization are acts of subject-dehumanization. Second, I demonstrate, by reviewing evidence about the linguistic material that we find in and around pornography, that pornography systematically deploys content that essentializes women in the ways identified as problematic. It follows that pornography dehumanizes women.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 703-717 |
Number of pages | 15 |
Journal | Australasian Journal of Philosophy |
Volume | 98 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Accepted/In press - 2020 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- dehumanization
- essentialism
- essentializing language
- pornography
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Philosophy