Sentence examples for subjection from inspiring English sources

Meyers, Diana T. Subjection and Subjectivity.

Subjection and Subjectivity.

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.

But there is an even deeper inconsistency between those ideals and the subjection of every other society on earth to mass surveillance.

Mr Chen's efforts, as a self-taught expert in the law, to expose one particular abuse the subjection of 130,000 people in his prefecture, Linyi, to forced abortions and sterilisations is an example of a kind of grassroots activism that has become increasingly common in recent years.

Now a mix of falling energy consumption, new pipelines that skirt round Russia, the exploitation elsewhere of shale gas and oil, and the subjection of Russian energy producers to EU competition rules has eroded his clout.Yet Russia is still a power of serious consequence.

Footage showing captured American troops ("mercenaries", say the Iraqis) led to American accusations that Iraq was violating the Geneva Conventions, which prohibit the subjection of prisoners-of-war to "insults and public curiosity".

Certainly nothing is more essential to the survival in freedom of small peripheral countries which might otherwise be harried and cowed into subjection by the communist powers though this reasoning will scarcely be uppermost in the minds of peoples who are already either attracted or overawed by communist feats.

Each used his intellectual authority to support a number of progressive causes: Mill attacking the subjection of women, Russell the constraints of conventional sexual morality and the manufacture of nuclear weapons, Ayer racism in sport and the harassment of homosexuals.

Out went a lifetime's slavish subjection to Moscow in favour of moderate, social-democratic "Eurocommunism .Out, too, went his dream of overthrowing the dictatorship through a general strike.

Cuban communism and the Bolivarian revolution have swum together; if Mr Maduro falters, they may sink together.Mr Chávez's fans claim that, thanks to him, Latin America freed itself from subjection to the United States.