Sentence examples for forms of subjection from inspiring English sources

Moreover, Mill was an early observer of the transition to new forms of subjection and control that were taking place around him.

Unlike Henry I, Otto I and his successors sought to free the prelates from all forms of subjection to the dukes.

These uses of animals are so institutionalized, so normalized, in our society that it is difficult to find the critical distance needed to see them as the horrors that they are: so many forms of subjection, servitude and — in the case of killing animals for human consumption and other purposes — outright murder.

Margaret Atwood has been writing all her life about forms of constriction, from the uniform subjections of The Handmaid's Tale and Grace Marks's life behind Victorian bars in Alias Grace to the voluntary imprisonment of lawful citizens in The Heart Goes Last.

In Bodies that Matter (1993), Butler extends this analysis to consider the impact of subjection on the bodily materiality of the subject.

This Foucaultian insight into the nature of subjection — into the ways in which becoming a subject means at the same time being subjected to power relations — thus forms the basis for Butler's trenchant critique of the category of women, and for her call for a subversive performance of the gender norms that govern the production of gender identity.

For this, Butler maintains, we need an analysis of the psychic form that power takes, for only such an analysis can illuminate the passionate attachment to power that is characteristic of subjection.

The image of subjection and imprisonment in this film is a vital part of Akerman's feminist perspective.

The various Indian traditions offer ways in which to attain moksha ("release"; "liberation") from the misery of subjection to the inexorable process of cosmic time.

But there is no acceptance only anger: for victims blamed for their persecution, for the persecution itself, and the survivors left to wrestle with the consequences of subjection.

Although Butler credits Foucault with recognizing the fundamentally ambivalent character of subjection, she also argues that he does not offer an account of the specific mechanisms by which the subjected subject is formed.