In a recent paper, Bernard and colleagues report that sexual objectification is not driven by revealing clothes, but by suggestive postures. 1 Background information We are constantly exposed to ...

According to objectification theory, women become culturally desexualized during midlife and have the opportunity to let go of their propensity to self-objectify. In young women, self-objectification ...

I wrote in my last post about how the average woman (in a study of university women in Australia) notices unwanted sexual gazing towards them about once every two days, and about 1.5 times a day ...

TOLEDO, Ohio — A Toledo activist group is taking a stand in the fight for the liberation of all women and girls. "Womyn Unleashed" invites women to have open conversations that highlight sex ...

Last week, I sat through a women’s studies lecture on body image. Thanks to the comprehensive health education I received throughout middle and high school, I was already familiar with most of the ...

Avid gamer or not, the release of Grand Theft Auto V has created such waves that everyone is seemingly aware of it. But one part of the game that not as many seem to be aware of is its treatment of ...

Citations: Gruenfeld, Deborah, M.Ena Inesi, Joe Magee, Adam Galinsky. 2008. Power and the Objectification of Social Targets. Journal of Social Personality and Social Psychology. (1)111-127.

This piece discusses the pilot episode of “The Deuce,” which premiered Sunday. When you watch a new show from David Simon, it’s always wise to look for a thesis statement somewhere in the first ...