alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
2.
objectify - make impersonal or present as an object; "Will computers depersonalize human interactions?"; "Pornography objectifies women"
alter, change, modify - cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; "The advent of the automobile may have altered the growth pattern of the city"; "The discussion has changed my thinking about the issue"
This correspondence reinforces the portrayal of Mumtaz's character as "the objectifier" who treats the object, Nilofer, "as something whose experience and feelings (if any) need not be taken into account" (218).
Thus, particularly in situations where attention is focused on the body, such as sexual situations, women experience heightened self-surveillance and body shame as a result of having internalized the objectifier lens (Calogero, Tantleff-Dunn, & Thompson, 2011).
Nussbaum rightly localizes the activity in the objectifier, not the person being objectified, and recognizes that many of these overlap but each can stand as an act of objectification on its own.