{ "item_title" : "The Culture of Objectification", "item_author" : [" Jr. John Zavala "], "item_description" : "What happens when attention becomes currency-and a person becomes a product? The Culture of Objectification examines how modern culture shapes the way we see, desire, and treat one another. John Zavala Jr. argues that the problem is not sex, attraction, beauty, or pleasure. It is desire cut loose from dignity, discipline, truth, and reverence. Moving from courtship and pornography to social media, self-branding, group behavior, and institutional silence, the book explores how human beings can become bodies to evaluate, images to consume, sources of validation, or instruments of power. Its governing question is not whether the body is noticed, but whether the person remains present. This is not a war between men and women, a call to shame the body, or a nostalgic return to every inherited custom. Responsibility for coercion, exploitation, and violence remains with those who commit them. Cultural influence is not an excuse, and participation in a culture is not equal guilt. The constructive movement turns toward desire joined to responsibility, masculinity without predation, femininity without self-objectification, and relationships grounded in consent, truth, fidelity, mutuality, and care. The work of repair then widens to children, families, institutions, digital platforms, and the spiritual meaning of the body. Bringing historical research, psychology, philosophical reasoning, and spiritual interpretation into conversation, this standalone work invites readers of different beliefs to consider a shared human obligation: to meet one another as persons rather than uses. For parents, educators, couples, and readers troubled by the commercialization of intimacy, the book offers a serious examination of what has been lost-and what can still be recovered without surrendering freedom, responsibility, or hope. We were not made to use one another.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/817/817/9798178172674_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.95", "online_price" : "24.95", "our_price" : "24.95", "club_price" : "24.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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