The suffering of object woman. Consequences of sexual objectification of women in the media

Abstract

This paper suggests that objectification of the female body constitutes a form of renewal of sexism in the context of modern democratic societies, with multiple implications for their everyday life. The author handles feminist theory in order to analyze the factors which make this fact to be considered as part of the symbolic violence that affects women as a whole, since it acts as ideological basis for inequality, discrimination and direct violence. The paper concludes that media manipulation of the female image leads to a voluntary adaptation of feminine sexuality to a patriarchal pattern.

Keywords

• cosificación sexual de las mujeres
• violencia simbólica
• malestar femenino
• medios de comunicación
• crítica feminista