ABSTRACT

One person treats another as a sexual being by responding to their actual or perceived sexual properties. I develop an account of sexualisation to examine this phenomenon, especially as it relates to wrongful treatment such as sexual harassment. On the account proposed here, one person sexualises another when they foreground that person’s sexual properties. Some property of a person is foregrounded when it is introduced to the score of the encounter, following David Lewis’s conception of a conversational score. Having developed a concept of sexualisation, I argue that unwanted sexualisation is wrong because it contradicts a person’s self-presentation. Unwanted sexualisation is a particularly serious instance of this due to cultural norms surrounding sex and the practice of unwanted sexualisation.

摘要

一个人通过回应另一个人的实际或感知的性属性来将另一个人视为有性的存在。我对性化进行了描述，以研究这种现象，特别是因为它与性骚扰等错误待遇有关。根据这里提出的说法，当一个人突出另一个人的性特征时，就会使另一个人性化。遵循大卫·刘易斯的对话乐谱概念，当一个人的某些属性被引入到遭遇乐谱中时，它就会被突出显示。在发展了性化的概念后，我认为不必要的性化是错误的，因为它与一个人的自我呈现相矛盾。由于围绕性的文化规范和不受欢迎的性化行为，不受欢迎的性化是一个特别严重的例子。