powerless

Examples of powerlessness

powerlessness
He argues, however, that women's relegation to the private sphere cannot be equated with powerlessness.
This global interpretation, which is not based in contextualized empirical analysis, assumes a direct mapping among discourse, femininity, and powerlessness.
The findings show that service providers experience significant levels of concern and frustration and a sense of powerlessness in meeting the needs of such clients.
The distorted visual images of this film also express the powerlessness of the gaze to sustain its object.
And it provides a further reason, in addition to current poverty and powerlessness, to see a land reform program as desirable on remedial grounds.
The overwhelming feature was the women's descriptions of their powerlessness.
Research has consistently shown that powerlessness is related to psychological distress.
An inability to handle colleagues' worries and distress increased the sense of powerlessness and fear at work.
In those scenes, we worked on the idea of these women's powerlessness in the face of latent male violence.
For the most part, informants acknowledged and identified discriminatory practices in the health system, but portrayed a sense of powerlessness.
Psychological concomitants include feelings of impending danger, powerlessness, apprehension and tension.
People who are acutely aware of their own powerlessness teeter on the boundary between anger and despair.
The issue was not economic hardship - there was none, he claims - but, rather, it was political powerlessness.
In addition, the dependence of the workers on language "brokers" to convey their grievances to management causes feelings of embarrassment, humiliation, and powerlessness.
It is suggested that these children are socialised into accepting poverty and powerlessness and implicitly collude with the inevitability of continuing disadvantage.
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