Self-Objectification in Women: Causes, Consequences, and Counteractions

by Rachel M. Calogero (Editor), Stacey Tantleff-Dunn (Editor), J. Kevin Thompson (Editor)

This book integrates recent research developments and current clinical knowledge on self-objectification in women and discusses various scales for measuring self-objectification, as well as approaches to prevent and disrupt this phenomenon.
With research from a variety of disciplines―psychology, sociology, anthropology, women’s studies, and political science―this book should be read by everyone interested in the well-being of women.

Genres: Nonfiction, Psychology, Feminism

254 pages, Hardcover

First published November 15, 2010

Reviews

[Syd Morgan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely educational, this book was incredibly hard to find to begin with. (Very expensive hard copies are few and far in between) however, I was fortunate enough to find a PDF. Lots of pertinent information and coping strategies to deal with internalized self-objectification. I also bought the Full of Ourselves textbook mentioned in the text and will be following up with that one next.

[Naveen Kothuri · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have mixed opinion about this book. This book is worth reading to gain much deeper understanding of the phenomenon. Chapters like The Birthmark, chapter on definitions, consequences are very well explained and based on research findings. However, the final chapter on counteractions needs to be better presented and should be more referenced with the studies that support the proposed intervention methods. For example, author suggests that a father who asks his son 'Tell me what your new girlfriend looks like' is indirectly objectifying. In context this may be so, but this chapter should delineate between objectifying and other social interactions that merely involve appearance of people and examples like above can dilute the criticality of the problem. In the authors' defense, it is made clear that much research is due for operationalising objectification that helps intervention.

[Brooke · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. Though the text is similar to a college textbook, it was fascinating, eye-opening, and a great read. Highly recommend all read this, as it's about a relevant and crucial cultural topic.

[Engi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing

[Mills College Library]

155.333 S4654 2011

[Jeffrey Bumiller · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this for Psychology of Human Sexuality class. Interesting, well-written but a little dry, which was to be expected. Very academic.