Sentence examples for of subjection from inspiring English sources

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.

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

Like most of the movie's twists and details, it provokes the feeling of subjection to stimuli like a movie-theatre lab rat.

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.

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.

The number and proportion of subjections who report treatment-emergent adverse events will be summarised for each group.

His declaration in that book that laws are arbitrary acts of human will is pertinent to his critique of the subjection of women.

The Kantian notion of the sublime allowed Schiller to articulate an ideal of the subjection of Neigung ("impulse") to Pflicht ("duty"), which results in an inner composition and control expressed outwardly in grace and composure.

In chapter IV of The Subjection of Women, Mill goes so far as to claim that "[a]ll the selfish propensities, the self-worship, the unjust self-preference, which exist among mankind, have their source and root in, and derive their principal nourishment from, the present constitution of the relation between men and women" (Mill, Subjection of Women, 86).

This is true of the works of John Stuart Mill that we cite, but not, of course, of his The Subjection of Women.