desexualization

This meant that her advisors and her most vicious detractors had a shared goal: her complete desexualization.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

This meant that her advisors and her most vicious detractors had a shared goal: her complete desexualization.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

This meant that her advisors and her most vicious detractors had a shared goal: her complete desexualization.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

This meant that her advisors and her most vicious detractors had a shared goal: her complete desexualization.

Big Girls Don’t Cry Rebecca Traister 2010

Women are objects of the patriarchal system: Asexualization of women on the one hand and desexualization of women.

Regina Weinreich: Tilda Swinton Gets a Haircut: I Am Love 2010

Sandra Bartky argues that the norms of femininity, for instance, are imposed on women during the construction of their subjectivities rather than when they are fully formed subjects, and that a woman's conforming to these norms is essential to her sense of herself as a sexually desiring and desirable subject such that expecting her not to conform threatens her with at least desexualization (2002, 25).

Feminist Moral Psychology Superson, Anita 2009

FRIDA is also not surprised that the initial recipient of the “Ashley Treatment” was a little girl, given that girls, and girls with disabilities in particular, are perceived as easier subjects for mutilation and desexualization.

Archive 2007-01-01 Kay Olson 2007

FRIDA is also not surprised that the initial recipient of the “Ashley Treatment” was a little girl, given that girls, and girls with disabilities in particular, are perceived as easier subjects for mutilation and desexualization.

FRIDA protests Ashley Treatment at AMA tomorrow Kay Olson 2007

The the desexualization of the disabled combined with the extremely gendered nature of this treatment just astonishes me.

The Ashley Treatment: A Feminist and Disability Rights Issue? 2007

If, like most feminists, you felt that the support of feminists for Clinton underlined a shift towards more ambiguity in judging sexual relationships, and away from attitudes that had come to seem puritanical and were widely accused of re-inscribing women's desexualization and disempowerment in the guise of liberation, rather than a "betrayal of principles" ... then you really can't be expected to see the photo the way Althouse does.

Bloggingheads! Ann Althouse 2007