It's about the various ways people – especially women – are oppressed, and it's relentlessly, bleakly funny.
One worry is that we are leaving out critical voices who did not represent a position in the dominant debates in their own time, especially women and oppressed minorities.
But equally important, Callow said, is the primacy Dickens gave to the childhood years: "Dickens's own childhood was the source of so much of his work, and from 'Oliver Twist' on, he placed children — especially damaged or oppressed ones — right at the center of his account of life".
I saw you being kind and helpful to a new generation of MPs who entered the House in 1997, especially young women who felt oppressed by the male and small-c conservative nature of the Commons.
People of faith, especially Christians, are not being oppressed in Pennsylvania, not even a little bit.
But the most consistent and enduring theme that runs through virtually every book in the Bible is that we are expected to love and be kind to our neighbors, especially the poor, hurting, and oppressed of the earth.
Blacks suffered in the angry South and Midwest, where, especially in the early years, the Ku Klux Klan oppressed them and lynchings occurred.
We ask people to continue to pray for the safe return of all captives being held unjustly and all people being oppressed around the world, and especially for the people of Syria, a land our son loved".
Though their melanin science sounds preposterous, by the time they're done you know why many people, especially those with a history of being oppressed, are deeply suspicious of what passes for scientific progress.
The people of that neighborhood, especially the youth, have long felt ignored, silenced, oppressed and disconnected.
