fetishized

I don't get claims that motherhood is 'fetishized' I certainly did not get Cooke's, and suspected that she does not understand the proper uses of the term 'fetish' - at the crudest level, 'fetishize' is used to refer to something being valued in disproportion to its worth, and I actually don't think that that's practically possible in the case of motherhood.

Who's The Dummy, Mummy? 2009

So much for occupation as the 'fetishized' plaything of privileged elites!

Anarchist news dot org - Comments anon 2010

So much for occupation as the 'fetishized' plaything of privileged elites!

Anarchist news dot org - Comments anon 2010

Does one just smash the state apparatus through some kind of fetishized revolutionary "event of mass Thermidorian working-class movements"?

Recent articles from SocialistWorker.org 2009

James Hughes, have "fetishized" democratic decision-making over the protection of minority rights.

Ethical Technology 2009

Marx shows that when productive relations are regulated through market exchanges the things exchanged become "fetishized" (Kapital v1 part 4 of chapter 1).

Kasama 2009

They've been fetishized, mythologized and anthropomorphized.

Hollywood Is Going to the Dogs Joanne Kaufman 2012

This type of faith-based metaphysics, indulged by doctors like Gordon and Sears and fetishized in the media, has no bigger cheerleader than Oprah Winfrey.

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011

It becomes a fetishized ritual: Wait in the terminal, drive back to the hotel, return the next morning to the terminal to wait again.

The Nightmare Of Real Things Sam Sacks 2011

This type of faith-based metaphysics, indulged by doctors like Gordon and Sears and fetishized in the media, has no bigger cheerleader than Oprah Winfrey.

The Panic Virus Seth Mnookin 2011