Sentences with phrase «societal conventions»

Friedman, then a 20 - something dot - com entrepreneur, was still buzzing from the sight of thousands of people casting off the shackles of societal convention on the desolate terrain outside Reno, and started wondering if there might be a way to unleash stifled political activity in the same way.
During the Southern Festival of Books, Karen Abbot was able to sit down and chat with us about her latest book, Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy, which details the lives of four women who bucked societal convention, risked their lives and became spies during the Civil War.
Founded in Hull during the late 1960s by artists Genesis P - Orridge and Cosey Fanni Tutti, COUM was a collective whose work confronted, subverted and challenged societal conventions.
Many were, of course, relatively privileged, having access to the necessary education and opportunity, unlikely as it was — yet there were still established societal conventions, undoubted disapproval and prejudice to be faced for choosing to serve constituents as an elected representative.
This flagrant disregard for societal conventions played perfectly to both angsty suburban teens and a wild arcade game about driving people to the brand - name retail chain of their choice.
Identity is no longer a body shaped by societal conventions, but it is a generative reproduction that is both disembodied and directly tied to our genetic material and the entities that control its surveillance.
Through this conversation, a combination of language play, moving image and installation, Theobald explores conflicted feelings about societal conventions, the repeated cycle of human existence, and the ways that received wisdom about life, love, death, freedom and personal growth feed back into daily life through depictions in film, television and music.
During Nashville's Southern Festival of Books, Karen Abbot was able to sit down and chat with us about Liar, Temptress, Solider, Spy, a book that details the lives of four women who bucked societal convention, risked their lives and became spies during the Civil War.
He spoke with the authority of someone who saw clearly, someone who was not distracted or blinded by self - interest, someone who was not a prisoner to societal conventions.
The two strike up a tentative romance in a Brief Encounter - style fashion — conducted through whispers and quiet glances — but societal convention (and Carol's ex-husband, Harge) stand in the way.
In shock, Dodge continues to report to work, as the world around him goes mad and his friends (Connie Britton, Rob Corddry, Patton Oswalt) shuck off all societal conventions and / or try to fix him up with a lady (Melanie Lynskey) so he won't die alone.
They displayed the female point of view on the societal conventions of eroticism.
Controversial and wildly popular, his works lampooned icons and societal conventions, as serious in their implicit critiques as in their humorous irreverence.
For four decades Lorraine O'Grady has consistently pursued a multidisciplinary practice in visual art and writing that challenges the societal conventions through which we understand and interpret gender, class, sexuality, art history, and race.
Her work also confronts feminist concerns and societal conventions, paralleled by her use of techniques typically categorized as craft and associated with women, such as crochet and sewing.
Such agreements force the parties involved to discuss openly and honestly with their citizens matters that might otherwise remain untouched and accepted due to tradition, societal convention, politics, religion, out - of - date law, science or belief, or other reasons.
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