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Examples of subjugation

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The resulting problem seemed stark, if not insurmountable: while subjugation compromised attempts at assimilation, assimilation would falter in the absence of the necessary transformation.
Traditional marriage was thus predicated on the assumption of female inferiority and her necessary subjugation to men.
In the village there was, of course, economic hardship, physical strain, battering and above all male control and subjugation.
Support for people in their own resolves and thus in exercising their own liberty, rather than subjugation to idealist tutelage, had a wide appeal.
Subjugation could be s. exercised over a number of domains-first and foremost of which was one's own self.
During the subjugation of the developing world, explorers often screened agricultural materials for new and useful purposes.
Though these divisions had not crystallised into clear-cut stereotypes, a search for cultural identity in a colonial climate of subjugation needed a framework of distinction.
She 'participated willingly if unwittingly in an ideological process that ultimately reinforced the colonizers' cultural subjugation of the colonized' (p. 98).
Interaction between customers and salespersons is characterized by domination of a transaction frame and subjugation of valet and consultation frames.
Through the conditioning of subjects' desires - whether by those subjects themselves or by their oppressors - a state of subjugation may masquerade as one of freedom.
The surroundings emphasise the spatial, economic and social legacy of subjugation that should never be forgotten.
Perhaps the most radical change would be the effective subjugation of research to the higher goal of product development.
Military subjugation led inexorably to the expropriation of land and to the arrival of 1 million colonial settlers.
Mostly they were kept in a position of dependency through subtle forms of subjugation, but occasionally they managed to attain leadership positions.
Such an apparently "primitive" government, however powerful in its own context, would seem incapable of real resistance to imperial subjugation.
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