Annotated Bibliography On Objectification Of Women

Lauren Schutt

Mrs. Garrett

English Composition 2

31 March 2023

Annotated Bibliography With the emergence of social media in the 21st century, active users often compare themselves. This discussion of comparison inspired me to learn more about how men and women objectify themselves with and without the use of social media . My inquiry question asks “Why do women self objectify themselves, and how does this affect society?” To make a claim, I needed to gain a better understanding of this topic, thus conducting research. This research took place between March 20th and 28th of 2023. These 6 sources are a combination of different news articles, scholarly journal articles, and informative websites, detailing objectification and the societal pressures

The objectification theory states that women who consume objectifying messages from the media will eventually adopt objectifying perspectives of themselves. It is stated as self-objectification dehumanizes people. That dehumanization can turn into acts of sexual violence. It is known that many convicted rapists had fallen on the idea that their act was justified by objectification. This article assesses the acceptance of the objectification of women by using two scales. The first being Ward’s 8-item sexual objectification subscale and the second being Wright and Tokunaga 5-item voyeurism subscale. Ward’s scale evaluated individuals’ agreement that women’s value is based on their physical appearance and overall attractiveness to men. While the Wright and Tokunaga scale consisted of three items: a man's sex drive, men wanting to look at women other than their partner, and men are naturally hard wired to look at women. The study undergone in this article suggests that adopting an objectified sense of the self is associated with the acceptance that it is okay to objectify women. Lastly the author urges for change because through the evidence provided, self-objectification is an issue rooted in gender inequality and gender

Little information can be found about Mckay’s education. However this source is posted by Eastern Michigan University, which is a well-established and recognized institution. Mckay’s research was published in the Mcnair Scholars Research Journal which is a well respected and peer reviewed journal published by Eastern Michigan University. Due to this article being published in the Mcnair Scholars research Journal, it is deemed as a credible source. This source answers my research question as it focuses on causes of self-objectification, like children being exposed to toys that are hyper focused on beauty and the effect of self-objectification, like eating disorders. The article was published in 2013. Although this source is older, as it was published 10 years ago, it is not out of date making it recent to my inquiry question. This paper provides a unique perspective to objectification as Mckay offers solutions to help women feel less like