Sentences with phrase «reaction against authority»

Curator Helen Molesworth tried to locate such a different relationship in an essay on New York painter Amy Sillman in which she discussed unknowability as a feminist virtue, a reaction against authority and mastery.

Not exact matches

Muchembled explains both the development of dueling among the nobility and rural revolts against the centralization of authority as reactions against state repression of traditional codes of violence: «In each case, the participants claimed an eminent right to a straight fight, even if it resulted in the death of the adversary.»
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