Objectification, Sex, and Structural Injustice

“客观化”一词经常被用来批评我们世界中令人反感的部分，这从它在女权主义理论和政治话语中的使用中可见一斑。我的研究问：“客观化”这个词会引发什么样的批评？从女权主义和社会理论中这个词的根源中得到启发，我认为我们应该把对象化理解为一个社会结构问题。这与占主导地位的哲学思想“对象化”是相反的，“对象化”指的是把人当作纯粹的物体来对待的个人行为。然后，我的研究思考了在我们的性生活中认真对待有问题的社会结构的力量所产生的一些紧迫问题，包括围绕结构不公正与个人代理之间的关系、不公正条件与性同意以及对亲密关系的监管的问题。

The term 'objectification' is often used to criticise some objectionable part of our world, as evident in its use within feminist theory and political discourse. My research asks: what kind of criticism does the term 'objectification' make? Taking inspiration from the term's roots in feminist and social theory, I argue that we should understand objectification as a social-structural problem. This stands in opposition to the dominant philosophical idea that 'objectification' refers to individual acts of treating persons like mere objects. My research then considers some of the urgent questions which arise from taking the force of problematic social structures within our sexual lives seriously, including issues surrounding the relationship between structural injustice and individual agency, unjust conditions and sexual consent, and the regulation of intimacy.