Sentence examples for own subjection from inspiring English sources

Where Badinter goes wrong is that she blames women for adapting to this unjust state of affairs by moralising their own subjection and making it the basis for their identity.

Posner, a sociologist influenced by the burgeoning New Age movement, argued that those women who had followed Friedan's counsel and sought to enter the workplace on a par with men had gained nothing but their own subjection to corporate culture, and would do well to cast aside career in favor of personal growth, forming a vanguard for the wholesale reformation of consumer capitalism.

The psychological effects of this sort of self-policing were written about by Michel Foucault: "He who is subjected to a field of visibility, and who knows it, assumes responsibility for the constraints of power; he makes them play spontaneously upon himself; he inscribes in himself the power relation in which he simultaneously plays both roles; he becomes the principle of his own subjection".

Indeed some of these other representations may be especially worrying, not simply because they may be more pervasive, but also insofar they may condition women to be complicit in their own subjection.

She also expands Foucault's analysis of the Panopticon, Jeremy Bentham's design for the ideal prison, a building whose spatial arrangement was designed to compel the inmate to surveil himself, thus becoming, as Foucault famously put it, "the principle of his own subjection" (1977, 203).

For the small price of your privacy you can shape, optimise and reanimate your identitie(s) online, untouched by the violent reality of your own subjection.

Fearing that stronger measures were needed to quell the unrest, Santa Anna ordered his brother-in-law, General Martín Perfecto de Cos to "repress with strong arm all those who, forgetting their duties to the nation which has adopted them as her children, are pushing forward with a desire to live at their own option without subjection to the laws".

Subjection and Subjectivity.

Meyers, Diana T. Subjection and Subjectivity.

A more promising a priori basis for dignity, one based on the inherent ethical potential of life itself, may lie in a Levinasian concept, whereby the Self's own corporeality places it in infinite ethical subjection to the Other (a formal category which, as Judith Butler puts it, serves as "a placeholder for the infinite ethical relation") [ 26, 27].

She and her persecutor emerge united in subjection to something greater than their own ugly story and mysteriously untarnished by it: their church.