Project aims:
To explore different areas of the media (such as advertising, TV and films) to assess the level of sexual objectification that people will view on a daily basis.
Explore the inequalities that women still face in modern society and assess whether the situation is improving or growing worse.
Assess rape statistics – especially in respect to how many rapes occur and how many are reported – to see if sexual objectification could have removed the female voice to the point of silencing them completely.
Finally discuss if the situation can be resolved and potentially how this could be done.
Philosophers:
Catherine MacKinnon,
“Pornography makes women into objects … Objects do not speak.”
Jean Baudrillard,
“In the ‘eroticized’ body, it is the social function of exchange which predominates.”
Simone de Beauvoir,
“The division of the sexes is a biological fact, not an event in human history.”
Immanuel Kant,
“The human being… exists as an end in itself, not merely as a means to be used by this or that will”
Thomas Hobbes,
“The Desires, and other Passions of man, are in themselves no Sin.”