Well i once read about an interesting anthropological study regarding women's objectification and some interesting aspects were highlighted in it.

When mankind was still wandering about as hunter gatherers, women could not be objectified. They were the other side of the social coin. Men were out and about hunting and protecting the tribe while the women made sure that things continued to run smoothly at the homestead, looked after the young and old, healed the sick, made the clothes.. Essentially took care of all the logistics involved in maintaining the structure of a tribe.

The structure of that era did not allow for objectification simply because women performed the other half of the jobs required for the maintenance of a tribe.

It was not until mankind became an agriculturalist that women started becoming objectified. Prior to the time that man owned LAND, he owned nothing other than what he carried with him. Everything was communal (though shares were distributed according to the accepted pecking order.

Agriculture brought about ownership of Land. with that followed livestock and "real estate". He no longer moved about.

When owning land became the source of power for mankind, suddenly continued ownership of that land by one's brood became the goal of a man's life, and not the survival of his young int he context of a communal tribal system.

That meant that he had to keep a tight control on who his souse mated (to ensure that the land went only to HIS children. It was this need to control the reproductive cycle of womankind that eventually led to her being termed as another object that he "owned". This is turn led to continued reduction of their rights through the ages.

gotta run do my show now.. will get back and write more