Abstract This essay examines the figure of Monica Lewinsky. It argues that the way she has been treated by the mass media reveals a gender bias within the society at large. The dominant culture makes sure to objectify women in a sexual way and to commodify them.
Abstract This essay reviews the events that followed the murder of John Lennon. There are three general areas of interest discussed. These are the facts surrounding the murder and the arrest and imprisonment of Marc David Chapman; the survivors of John Lennon (i.e., his sons and wife); and the status of the Lennon estate. This essay asserts that John Lennon has been excessively marketed and commodified since his death, and that music audiences are consumers of death as much as they are of music.
Abstract This paper is about how society and the mass media are obsessed with the body image of women. The paper provides an intensive critique of how high society views the human flesh and how women are objectified and defined by socially constructed images. The issue of body image, the social construction of it, and how people can become victim to the desires and values that their own society constructs for them, is examined. The paper further discusses that the construction of such images, and the projection of them unto women, continues to this day through stereotypical portrayals by mass media advertisements. Because advertisements commodify women in the marketplace, where the women's sexuality is objectified, exploited, and domesticated, political/capital, and sexism issues are raised in the paper.
Abstract This paper discusses Marx's theory that capitalism has commodified people. It explains his basic argument that the worker is a commodity in the capitalist system. The author researches Marx's exchange theory, and user-pays system. The paper offers examples of a personal experience applied to commodification.
From the Paper "According to Marx, capitalism has commodified people by turning them into commodities. Marx's argument is that labor does not only produce commodities like clothing or coffee, it produces itself and the worker as a commodity. Economic and Philosophic Manuscript ..."
Abstract This paper review eight feminist essays, which support the argument for the way different cultural influences continue to promote ideas of women as sexual objects. The author points out that physical, sexual, and social and economic violence against women is somehow acceptable. The paper relates that North America has not stopping commodifying female sexuality, any more than it has stopped dominating and sometimes oppressing women.
From the Paper "This paper discusses a range of articles that pertain to different aspects of women's commodification by men, usually as sex objects, and as this connects to male violence against women as an often accepted phenomenon. It is not that cultural mores have tolerated male violence against women so much as the fact that male violence against women occurs, at all, that makes these connections ominous. It should be a bizarre irony that love relationships so often involve male domination and violence against women. "
Abstract This paper explores Karl Marx's theory of estrangement within the context of the contemporary industrial and economic setting. It devotes a considerable amount of time to explicating Marx's conceptions of estrangement and alienation. The paper subsequently looks at how his concept of estrangement can be applied to the modern global economy.
From the Paper "To begin with, Marx insists that the worker in the capitalist order is the most wretched of beings insofar as his or her power is in inverse proportion to his (or her) creative production. In other words, as Marx argues vehemently, the worker creates and someone else gains the wealth accumulated by the creation of that item. To elaborate a little further, the fruits of labor's efforts (the goods produced by steadfast toil) metamorphose into something that is literally independent of the producer; the laborers lose control over the means of production and the more products he or she produces, the less ability he or she has to consume those goods and the more he or she falls under the dominion of capital (Marx, 30-31)."
