Abstract
“James Tiptree Jr.” is a pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon, US Air Force intelligence officer, CIA analyst, experimental psychologist, and one of the most important and highly acclaimed science fiction writers of the twentieth century. Sheldon’s work as Tiptree (both fiction and nonfiction) deals with a variety of important feminist concerns—among them, sexism, misogyny, objectification, sexual assault, the “otherness” of women, and silencing. This paper explores in a philosophical mode some of the important insights about objectification conveyed in one of Tiptree’s most well-known stories, “’And I Awoke and Found Me Here on the Cold Hill’s Side.” These insights lead naturally to a characterization of sexual objectification that both avoids problems with standard philosophical characterizations and also sheds important light on the relationship between objectification and silencing.
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Abstract “James Tiptree Jr.” is a pseudonym of Alice B
My focus will be on what we might call attitudinal and representational sexual objectification—that is, sexual objectification that is accomplished by the way we perceive, regard, or represent someone rather than by the way we treat them behaviorally
These insights lead naturally to a characterization of objectification that both avoids some of the problems with more familiar philosophical characterizations and sheds important light on the relationship between objectification and silencing
Summary
Abstract “James Tiptree Jr.” is a pseudonym of Alice B. Tiptree represents the attitude of the men in his story toward the aliens as roughly parallel to the knight’s attitude toward the Belle Dame; and, in doing this while at the same time making reference to cargo cults, he seems to be saying that people—but, in light of the direct allusion to the Keats poem, most notably women—who are viewed and represented in this way are objectified.
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