This meant that her advisors and her most vicious detractors had a shared goal: her complete desexualization. ❋ Rebecca Traister (2010)
Women are objects of the patriarchal system: Asexualization of women on the one hand and desexualization of women. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Sandra Bartky argues that the norms of femininity, for instance, are imposed on women during the construction of their subjectivities rather than when they are fully formed subjects, and that a woman's conforming to these norms is essential to her sense of herself as a sexually desiring and desirable subject such that expecting her not to conform threatens her with at least desexualization (2002, 25). ❋ Superson, Anita (2009)
FRIDA is also not surprised that the initial recipient of the “Ashley Treatment” was a little girl, given that girls, and girls with disabilities in particular, are perceived as easier subjects for mutilation and desexualization. ❋ Kay Olson (2007)
The the desexualization of the disabled combined with the extremely gendered nature of this treatment just astonishes me. ❋ Unknown (2007)
If, like most feminists, you felt that the support of feminists for Clinton underlined a shift towards more ambiguity in judging sexual relationships, and away from attitudes that had come to seem puritanical and were widely accused of re-inscribing women's desexualization and disempowerment in the guise of liberation, rather than a "betrayal of principles" ... then you really can't be expected to see the photo the way Althouse does. ❋ Ann Althouse (2007)
In sci-fi films, bald women have conveyed a number of things in addition to desexualization, including masculinity, sexual ambiguity, dehumanization, youthfulness, and innocence. ❋ Mac (2006)
Rather, he (controversially) suggests the desexualization of pleasure, by which subjects attempt to undermine certain aspects of the constructed form of sexuality (for example, the reduction of sexuality to the genitals) demanded by the discourses of power. ❋ Cahill, Ann J. (2005)
The Committee feel that the information at present available in regard to sterilization or desexualization of sexual offenders is quite inadequate to permit of a sound and final judgment as to the value of the procedure. ❋ New Zealand. Committee Of Inquiry Into Mental Defectives And Sexual Offenders (N/A)
It is certainly practicable, and is as likely to be favoured as opposed by public opinion, especially that section of the public that understands the difference between simple sterilization and desexualization. ❋ New Zealand. Committee Of Inquiry Into Mental Defectives And Sexual Offenders (N/A)
The operation of desexualization implies the removal of the sexual glands (ovaries or testes), and involves other considerations than the operation of simple sterilization. ❋ New Zealand. Committee Of Inquiry Into Mental Defectives And Sexual Offenders (N/A)
There is no doubt also that much confusion exists in the minds of the public as to the meaning of sterilization and desexualization or castration. ❋ New Zealand. Committee Of Inquiry Into Mental Defectives And Sexual Offenders (N/A)
And if Mr. Smith is right that the woman in your life defaults to desexualization, then chances are she'll be pleasantly surprised by what she doesn't choose. close ❋ Unknown (2009)
My fellow Canadian, Barbara Kay wrote a fierce critique of Barbie's 'desexualization' recently in the National Post. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Moreover, the desexualization of lesbians in contrast to the hyper-sexualization of gay men is based on stereotypes as well and must stop. ❋ Unknown (2008)
