That the women in his books are acted upon rather than acting is not a complaint exclusively about his women, either.
Amis of course knows that the question is not about whether women in fiction are allowed to be attractive – that it has to do with their agency, their interiority, the sense that they are acted upon rather than acting in his fiction.
Smartphones, geotagged photos and canvassing for public feedback only help if the data gathered are acted upon.
While it's true Detroit has no shortage of wretchedness, taken together these stories paint the picture of helpless people who are acted upon, people with no agency.
The ovaries, in addition to producing egg cells (ova), secrete and are acted upon by various hormones in preparation for pregnancy.
Imagine that we start with the idea of PPC – that advertisers pay publishers only if their ads are acted upon by readers.
This paper addresses the mechanics of the flexural-torsional buckling instability of pin-ended elastic circular arches, which are acted upon by a hydrostatic loading.
The cecum is a blind sac at the far end of the small intestine where complex compounds such as cellulose are acted upon by symbiotic bacteria.
To occupy a university space is to fundamentally question what education is for, how teaching and learning is organised, whose decisions are acted upon and how those decisions are made.
"I am also concerned that, while IPCC investigations generate many important recommendations for police forces, there is no process to monitor if those recommendations are acted upon, or simply filed in the waste paper bin.
If we want to see a government that puts science at the centre of its decision-making, rather than use it as window-dressing, it is vital that the recommendations of the IUSS are acted upon.
