Sentences with phrase «about subjugation»

Throw in Margaret Atwood's bone - chilling novel A Handmaid's Tale about the subjugation and suppression of women and their rights, and you've got a trifecta.

Hounds of Love is about the subjugation of women and male - inflicted abuse, from brutal violence involving strangers to psychological domination from long - term partners.

In the end, Disobedience is less about the subjugation of the self to the group than the courage to embrace uncertainty if one were to break out of the prison of a world one has been born into.

Not exact matches

The things I find most appalling about religion reach a new zenith in Islam --(i) a dulling down of individual thought and a dogmatic requirement to conform to the views of the masses; (ii) a stultifying ignorant education system in which anything inconsistent with the Qur» an is not just discouraged, but censored; (iii) the subjugation of women to the point of educating them to be nothing but mindless f * king, breeding machines for their insecure husbands; (iv) a political class that feeds off the religious - based ignorance it imposes on its populations; and (v) a general back - sliding against the rest of the planet because heads are buried in Dark Ages mythology.

What about men who enjoy and appreciate partnerships with women and whose sense of calling and security is not dependent upon my subjugation?

Understanding this tradition through secondary sources is risky, especially today; for much of what is now said about the Bible in general and this story in particular — for example, that it is sexist, or that it justifies the subjugation of women — strikes me as either erroneous or shallow.

Possibly it was the millennial drive toward a total transformation of the earth condition that led us, resentful that the perfect world was not yet achieved by divine means, to set about the violent subjugation of the earth by our own powers in the hope that in this way the higher life would be attained, our afflictions healed.

Such cultural corrosion, subversion and even «genocide» are brought about by the cultural subjugation of the people through the western - dominated global media, and this is inevitable, given the inherent character of the present global information order, which excludes people's participation, dialogues and interactions.

The peculiarly American quality about this myth is that even in our nation's history of subjugation, a sense of manifest destiny was often associated with extending the nation's boundaries.

It's a man's world, a Catholic life of subjugation for any God - fearing woman, Sister Aloysius included, and in this man's world, the devotional female serves tea, and listens to what the dominant sex has to say about the Christmas pageant, and all matters of pontification.

Jolie's directorial debut was the little - seen «In the Land of Blood and Honey,» a film that traded epic sweep for a more intimate but no less brutal story, about a woman's sexual subjugation during the Bosnia - Serbia conflict.

Like the previous productions in the series, this one contains strong moral messages about the definition of humanity and the subjugation of those deemed to be of a lower ranking.

There are many positive points to Brimstone, a brutal Western with a point to make about female subjugation.

The heavy hand of religious fundamentalism, and its subjugation of women, is central to «Gett: The Trial of Viviane Ansalem,» an overwhelmingly intense film about an Orthodox Jewish Israeli woman trying to get a religious divorce.

Other artists find more subtle ways to critique the objectifying gaze, to make pictures about sex that are not about power and subjugation.