Visibility and Invisibility: the Work of Women by Patricia Alejandra Collado

“…Although feminist proposals have different levels of analysis and emphasis, it is necessary to return to their unique production, in order to unveil the situation of greater exploitation and oppression, of workers in general and in particular of women. …”
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Voies périphériques comme centre de l’utopie. Le travail de la terre comme élément nodal de l’émancipation des femmes dans le Mexique rural by Céline Chenot

“…Also, some theologians equate these two adjectives to a movement that cannot tackle the problems of female oppression (Tamez, 1998). Although these religious women - mainly Catholic - have remained in the shadows for a long time, they are nowadays actively involved in the emancipatory enterprise of women's empowerment and participate in the creation of new centers on the periphery. …”
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Image Theatre: body language and educational drama by Tomás MOTOS TERUEL

“…It’s a dramatic intervention tool based on body language, which, through the iconography made with the postures adopted by the participants, attempts to analyze a specific state of personal or collective conflict induced by a real oppression, fear or exclusion. And straight they seek collectively real alternative solution for implementing it. …”
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Toussaint Louverture, en nombre de la dignidad. Mirada sobre la historia del precursor de la independencia de Haití by Salim Lamrani

“…Born as a slave, Toussaint Louverture, after conquering his freedom, led the revolt of his people against the oppression of the chains and the colonial violence from the French Empire, reaffirming through struggle the inalienable right of humans to freedom. …”
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Joshua Dibundu, Lotin Same, and the Native Baptist Church: Resistance and Nationalism in Cameroon’s History of Religion by Roland Ndille

“…This article sets out to present Joshua Dibundu and Lotin Same, two clergymen and contemporaries of John Chilembwe of Nyasaland and Simon Kibangu of the Congo, who stood out against European missionary pressure and colonial administrative oppression in an effort to establish and sustain the first African Independent Church (AIC) in Cameroon: the Native Baptist Church (NBC). …”
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Mikilvægi stjórnarskrár í lýðræðislegu samfélagi by Ragnheiður Elfa Þorsteinsdóttir

“…Þorsteinsdóttir examines and evaluates their importance in ensuring that democratic rights and tempering majoritarianism are ensured so that oppression is not created due to the unbridled totalitarianism of the majority. …”
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Racial Equity and U.S. Law

“…History and experience teach us that our Constitution and laws can be instruments of racial discrimination and oppression as well as tools for advancing freedom and equality. …”
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Neologisms in contemporary feminisms: For a redefinition of feminist linguistic activism by Océane Foubert

“…In order to counter the androcentric nature of language, feminists have also coined new terms to highlight women’s experiences and forms of oppression. This approach, known as the disruptive approach, has been defined as the coinage of neologisms that emphasise women’s subordination and men’s domination. …”
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All Mixed up: Multi/Racial Liberation and Compassion-Based Activism by Aizaiah Yong

“…This paper seeks to identify pathways of liberation amidst contemporary challenges faced by those who identify as multiracial by re-imagining various approaches to confronting racial oppression through compassion-based activism. The primary question of this study focuses on how compassion (as broadly understood by and across the world’s spiritual traditions) might sustain, invigorate, or be adapted to aid the struggle for racial justice in the United States. …”
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Invoking the Secular: Gendered Delineations of Muslim Belonging in Switzerland by Mirjam Aeschbach

“…Analyzing the entanglements of these images with gendered issues, such as gender equality as tied to ‘secular’, male (sexual) violence and the oppression of women as inherently ‘religious’ and particularly Muslim, I illustrate the specific positionalities that mark the fault line between acceptable and unacceptable Muslimness. …”
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Introduction. Debating Intersectionalities: Challenges for a Methodological Framework by Supurna Banerjee, Nandini Ghosh

“…Critiques of intersectionality have feared that intersectionality results in the fragmentation of the opposition to structural oppression. We argue for the potentialities of a reflexive use of intersectionality rather than its rejection, for this intersectionality has to be applied as a method of research. …”
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Transformative research: personal and societal by Mertens Donna M.

“…I put forth the hypothesis that if we design our research so that it explicitly addresses issues of discrimination and oppression that the probability of personal and social transformation increases.…”
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Tubuh dan Relasi Gender: Wacana Pascakolonial Dalam Novel “The Scarlet Letter” Karya Nathaniel Hawthorne by M. Yuseano Kardiansyah

“…This research analyzes postcolonial discourse about body and gender relation in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter that tells about obsession toward morality, gender oppression, punishment for sinner, guilty feeling dan individual sin confession. …”
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Race Based Admissions and Affirmative Action: Revisiting Historical Implications on Black Students in Higher Education by Jesse R. Ford

“…The legacy of discrimination and oppression against Black Americans has influenced the development and implementation of policies rooted in a desire to decrease inequities. …”
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A Double Colonization: The Case of the Arab Bedouin Woman in Fadia Faqir’s Pillars of Salt by Orouq Ayham Abu

“…Applying postcolonial feminism, the analysis of Faqir’s novel shows that colonization and patriarchy interact as double structures of oppression that produce cumulative forms of violence against the colonized women. …”
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Decolonizing the Anthropocene: ‘Slow Violence’ and Indigenous Resistance in Cherie Dimaline’s The Marrow Thieves by Xausa, Chiara

“…Secondly, I will suggest that the novel’s apocalypse reveals the processes of colonial violence and dispossession that have culminated in the eruptive event of environmental catastrophe, rather than portraying a story of universal and disembodied human threat that conceals oppression against Indigenous people. …”
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From the Editors by Jason Harshman, Emin Kılınç

“…Increased mobility, digital communication, and cultural hybridity, along with oppression and social injustice require that educators and students not only be able to communicate and collaborate with people different from them, but regularly engage in critical self-reflection around perceived norms and values. …”
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John Edgar Wideman’s Writing to Save a Life : Only Connect by Claude Julien

“…The book finds a peace of sorts, closing on a well known African American folk tale affirming the need to struggle against racial oppression : puny bees resist Brother Bear’s greed.…”
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Un projet parental à l’épreuve de l’infécondité à Hanoi (Vietnam) : des difficultés aux stratégies des couples pour avoir un enfant by Laurence Charton, Thi Van Nguyen

“…By showing the socio-emotional consequences of childlessness, it also highlights the gender oppression and intergenerational power relationships that are mainly experienced by childless…”
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Maux de l'étranger. Mots de l'étrangeté dans Summertime de J.M. Coetzee by Cécile Birks

“…Coetzee's text overtly discusses the complex political and ideological framework that shaped, stifled and fractured the society and culture his protagonist had grown up in and away from but also to some extent the geographical, sociological, racial and linguistic transformations that had started to take place underground and against the apartheid regulations and oppression.…”
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