Category: Oppression
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Female Oppression In The Novel The Handmaids Tale
The oppression of women will continuously be the elephant in the room, something men will shove under the rug in hopes that people will ignore the maltreatment. The struggles women face daily are overlooked in society, and especially in the media, thus their ultimate struggles seem infinite. In the novel The Handmaids Tale written by…
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Beauvoir: Moral Fault And Oppression
Jean-Paul Sartre describes inauthenticity as living in Bad Faith by rejecting radical freedom. His contemporary Simone De Beauvoir, challenges this by dissecting the ontology of women , concluding that womens facticity constrains the ability to engage as radically free beings. By unpacking the ontology of women, Beauvoir revises Sartres idea of Bad Faith to broaden notions…
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Reflection on Oppression and Privilege from Personal Experience
In the words of Marilyn Frye (1983), The word oppression is a strong word. It repels and attracts. It is dangerous and dangerously fashionable and endangered. It is much misused, and sometimes not innocently . In this reflection statement I will try to define what oppression is and how it intersects with privilege in my personal…