Seeing and treating a woman as an object - Martha Nussbaum identified seven features that are involved in the idea of treating a person as an object
Instrumentality - the treatment of a person as a tool for the objectifiers purposes
Denial of Autonomy - the treatment of a person as lacking in autonomy and self-determination
Inertness - the treatment of a person as lacking in agency and perhaps also in activity
Fungibility - the treatment of a person as interchangeable with other objects
Violability - the treatment of a person as lacking in boundary-integrity
Ownership - the treatment of a person as something that is owner by another (can be bought or sold)
Denial of Subjectivity - the treatment of a person as something whose experiences and feelings (if any) need not be taken into account
Rae Langton added three other features to the list
Reduction to Body - the treatment of a person as identified with their body, or body parts
Reduction to Appearance - the treatment of a person primarily in terms of how they look, or how they appear to the senses
Silencing - the treatment of a person as if they are silent, lacking the capacity to speak
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