"Although polite culture put women on a pedestal to avoid challenging the prerogatives of men," Howe writes, "it represented in important respects an advance over the subjugation of women common in premodern society".
The novel came to be understood as an allegory for debates about turn-of-the-century monetary policy stemming from outrage over the subjugation of agricultural interests to the imperialism of bankers on the East Coast.
Many Israelis will die to protect themselves, and many more Palestinians will prefer death over continued subjugation, humiliation and despair.
Though built as a welcome to King George V for his visit of 1911, then an event of grand significance for British India and the British empire, today serves as a "monumental memento" of colonialisation and subjugation by the British over the people of India.
Let's use their language...] are growing fast, and have an enticing brand that could in time pull some of the medium sized star systems over from the glorious subjugation to the Emperor".
As Noam Chomsky opined, Hugo Chavez led "the historic liberation of Latin America" from the over 500 years of subjugation it had suffered since the time of the Conquistadors.
Looking at the response to deposit confiscation in Cyprus (and MF Global for that matter) by klepto governments on behalf of corrupt TBTF bankers, the answer could be 'Yes.' If given the opportunity of preserving wealth and independence or complying with corrupt crony capitalists bent on occupation and subjugation, people tend to choose freedom over bondage.
Rightly, he does not make a fuss over practices conquest, slavery, and the subjugation of women that, however unjust to our eyes, were normal in the Dark Ages, but when he can give the Muslims an edge in these matters he does so.
At root – as, for example, the radical journalist Laurie Penny has observed – it is because feminism has achieved social mobility for some women, and even a symbolically liberated lifestyle, but at the price of a truce over the economic and social subjugation of all women.
This was a highly symbolic celebration of his victories over his enemies and the subjugation of the region, but it was also a visible and symbolic gesture to Lady Saigō, a way that Ieyasu could credit her for her assistance, and publicly demonstrate the esteem in which he regarded her.
