The Paradox of Self-Sexual Objectification: Selfhood and the Limits of Recognition

我的目的是检验性客观化(SO)和自我性客观化(SSO)对女性的矛盾影响。预计女性会在社交媒体平台、音乐或广告行业进行SSO，以获得更多粉丝、赞和经济利润。我认为，SSO的压力和条件对妇女和女孩的自我理解产生了负面影响。然而，在20世纪60年代的“性革命”之后，SSO被认为是“解放”女性的标志。这就产生了我所说的“SSO悖论”：女性的SSO虽然在社会上表现为解放，但最终却被疏远了。我求助于福柯，通过将SSO解释为一系列屈从的过程来寻求走出僵局的方法；我依靠克尔凯郭尔开发出更合适的自我构成模型。总体而言，我的目标是通过平衡世界和自我的需求，为女性提供实现更自由自我关系的概念性工具。

My aim is to examine the paradoxical effects that sexual objectification (SO) and self-sexual objectification (SSO)have on women. Women are expected to SSO themselves on social media platforms, in the music oradvertisement industry, to gain more followers, likes, and financial profit. I argue that the pressure and conditioningof SSO negatively affect the self-understanding of women and girls. Yet following from the 'sexual revolution' of the1960s, SSO is considered the hallmark of a 'liberated' woman. This generates what I call the 'Paradox of SSO': theSSO of women, while socially presented as liberating, ends up being alienating. I seek ways out of this impasse byturning to Foucault to illuminate SSO as a set of subjugating processes; and I rely on Kierkegaard to develop amodel of a more appropriate constitution of the self. Overall, my aim is to provide women with conceptual tools toachieve a freer self-relation, by balancing the demands of the world with those of the self.