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Linda LeMoncheck, Dehumanizing Women: Treating Persons as Sex Objects. Totowa, NJ 1985.

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Linda LeMoncheck, Dehumanizing Women: Treating Persons as Sex Objects. Totowa, NJ 1985.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Susan Sherwin*
Affiliation:
Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, CanadaB3H 3J5

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Copyright © The Authors 1987

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References

1 Sherwin, SusanPhilosophical Methodology and Feminist Methodology: Are They Compatible?’ to appear in Code, Lorraine Mullett, Sheila and Overall, Christine eds., Feminist Perspectives: Philosophical Essays on Method and Morals (Toronto: University of Toronto Press [forthcoming])Google Scholar.

2 ‘Sexuality is to feminism what work is to marxism: that which is most one's own, yet most taken away’ (MacKinnon, Catherine A.Feminism, Marxism, Method, and the State,’ in Keohane, Nannerl O. Rosaldo, Michelle Z. and Gelpi, Barbara C. eds., Feminist Theory [Brighton, Sussex: The Harvester Press 1982], 1)Google Scholar.

3 See, for instance, Geraldine Finn, ‘Against Sexual Imagery, Alternative or Otherwise,’ read at the Symposium on Images of Sexuality in Art and the Media, Gallery 101, Ottawa, March 1985.

4 This view is developed in Baier, Annette Trust, and Anti-Trust,’ Ethics 96 (January 1986) 231–60.Google Scholar

5 Sherwin, SusanA Feminist Approach to Ethics,’ Dalhousie Review 64. 4 (1984-85) 701–13Google Scholar

6 Noddings, Nel Caring (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press 1984)Google Scholar

7 Frye, Marilyn The Politics of Reality (Trumansburg, NY: The Crossing Press 1983), 67Google Scholar

8 This view is developed in many of the essays in Harding, Sandra and Hintikka, Merrill B. eds., Discovering Reality (Dordrecht Holland: D. Reidel 1983)Google Scholar.

9 See, for instance, Ortner, Sherry B.Is Female to Male as Nature is to Culture?’ in Pearsall, Marilyn ed., Women and Values (Belmont, CA: Wadsworth 1986) 62–75.Google Scholar