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According To Marx's Objectification Of Women

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OBJECTIFICATION OF WOMEN: NORTHEAST

SUBMITTED BY: YANU TAKO (3rd SEMESTER)
COURSE: SOCIOLOGY OF MINORITIES AND ETHNIC GROUPS (CSSS)
COURSE INSTRUCTOR: DR. A. BIMOL AKOIJAM

“It is true, and very much to the point, that women are objects, commodities, some deemed more ex- pensive than others-but it is only by asserting one 's humanness every time, in all situations, that one becomes someone as opposed to something. That, after all, is the core of our struggle.” - Andrea Dworkin, Woman Hating …show more content…

The idea of objectification can be understood as - A human being regarded and/or treated as an object. The idea of objectification thus states a thing that can be owned, used or discarded. Therefore, Objectification will be argued as morally problematic. The famous theory of Marx’s analysis of capitalism can also help us to understand as to how problematic this term is. His analysis of the object like treatment of workers under capitalism, and the absence of concern for experiences and feelings. The gradual erosion of health through low substandard of living conditions may as well be regarded as a kind of slow physically abuse. Spiritual exploitation, on the other hand, is the heart of what Marx thinks is happening to workers, when they are deprived of control over the means of their self- definition as humans. The alienation of man from his work and from himself is the ultimatum of the capital

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