Madness and Lack of Autonomy: by Sonika Islam

“…This article has explored three phases of Mary’s life—spinsterhood, unhappy married life, and her journey to sexual awakening which only gets repressed again by the racial oppression she faces as a white woman being in love with a colored man. …”
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The Militant Nun as Political Activist and Feminist in Martial Law Philippines by Mina Roces

“…In the process of attacking political oppression, these nuns also began to challenge cultural constructions of the feminine – becoming the first overt feminists to do so in Philippine history. …”
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O DIREITO EM CONTRADIÇÃO: direitos humanos, atuação estatal e população em situação de rua by Karoline Strapasson, Danielle Anne Pamplona

“…Extreme poverty is an intergenerational complex phenomenon resulting from the lack of opportunities, social, cultural and age elements which lead to dignity and human rights violations and promotes physical and moral oppression. To safeguard the rights of this vulnerable population, the state conceives public policies in the field of social assistance but their action is vitiated by offenses such as begging and vagrancy that reflect prejudice and social stigma against homeless. …”
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The Historical Relevance of the Indonesian National Movement in the Merdeka Curriculum by Jaza Ana Albirru

“…The Indonesian National Movement was a form of protest against the colonists' oppression of the Indonesian people carried out for many years, who were born in 1908-1945. …”
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“And the House Burned Down”: HIV, Intimacy, and Memory in Danez Smith’s Poetry by Juncosa Toni R.

“…Danez Smith’s [insert] boy (2014) not only bears witness to the intricacy of the intersection between queerness and Blackness in the United States of the twenty-first century, but also illustrates an overcoming of multiple forms of oppression through poetry. In Smith’s second collection Don’t Call Us Dead (2017), this experience is further complicated when a positive HIV diagnosis enters the equation. …”
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The Theme of the Shattered Self in Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye and A Mercy by Manuela López Ramírez

“…Thus Pecola and Sorrow are vulnerable victims of social oppression, scapegoats. In a critical stage of their subjectivity development psychosis becomes, for these young girls, a coping strategy to survive in a hostile environment.  …”
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Deeply Ecological Deleuze and Guattari by Richard Iveson

“… Through a critical reading of the notion of “becoming-animal” as proposed by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, it is argued in this paper that the drawing of a simple division between the wild and the tame inevitably results in a restricted concept of ethics that reiterates contemporary structures of oppression. One of the main reasons for the recent interest in Deleuze and Guattari from within critical animal studies is that their philosophy appears to give to nonhuman animals an access to a “becoming” that is equal in power and affect to those open to the human. …”
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Caste at the City’s Edge: Land Struggles in Peri-urban Bengaluru by Carol Upadhya, Sachinkumar Rathod

“…This study demonstrates why caste should be understood as a social structure of accumulation, whose specific modes of operation are defined by regionally rooted histories of development and memories of oppression and struggle.…”
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The Collaborator Mesmerized by a Nationalist: The Narrative Configuration of Nationalism and Colonial Modernity in the South Korean Film, "Modern Boy" (2008) by Min Koo Choi

“…The reconstruction of Kyŏngsŏng (Seoul in Contemporary Korea) under Japanese colonial rule as a modern urban city is paralleled with Japanese surveillance and oppression over the Korean people who were seen as a possible threat. …”
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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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Pacifism and Jihad by Farah Ramin

“…The findings of this study show that in Islam peace does not always mean the absence of violence but rather ever-lasting peace that flourishes in the absence of oppression, injustice, corruption, and tyranny.…”
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The search for Eden: Paper Towns That Never Where by Thomas Nieman

“…It is the intent of this paper to illustrate that, while many of the towns were paper towns that were never actualised, they acted as a catalyst for immigrants seeking to escape the oppression of Europe. Visualised as a new Eden, and promising land ownership with liberty, they were an opiate so strong that even with numerous instances of fraud and deceit the settlers came. …”
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Hak Warga Negara Dalam Memperoleh Pendidikan by Emmanuel Sujatmoko

“…The ignorance is a source of oppression for humanity, if up to this time, the state did not implement its obligations in fulfilling the rights of its citizens to acquire basic education, then the state has violated human rights and constitutional violations.…”
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Giving Voice at a Price: Imagining The Arab World in the Work of Elizabeth Laird by Muhammad Masud

“…It explores how these texts rely on stereotypical constructions that cast the region as a place of ultimate violence, poverty, religious oppression, and patriarchal tyranny. The article concludes with highlighting the urgency to disrupt these generalizations, diversify thematic foci, and present readers with heterogeneous Arab characters and settings.…”
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Towards an Intersectional Perspective in Cycling by Tiffany Lam

“…An intersectional perspective acknowledges that there are multiple systems of oppression, which interact in complex ways to compound inequalities and reinforce certain power dynamics. …”
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The Telenovela and the Representation of Black Women: A Study from the Controlling Images Analytical Category by Matheus Effgen Santos, Gabriela Santos Alves

“…The research consisted of analyzing the protagonists of the first part of this narrative, Camila (Jéssica Ellen) and Vitória (Taís Araújo), based on the analytical category of controlling images (Collins, 2019), which unravels the logic that tries to justify the oppression experienced by these women. The results show that these images can be identified isolated and/or combined in the construction of these characters. …”
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Addressing Historic Injustice in Russia: The Case of Child Victims of Political Repression by Marina Belykh, Jane Henderson

“…Russia is still dealing with the legacy of widespread Soviet oppression. An important Rehabilitation Law adopted in 1991 established a compensation system for victims of state repression, including a right to housing in their families' pre-exile place of residence. …”
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Are Family Systems and Medical Systems Broken? An Auto-Ethnographic Reflection on Psychiatric Incarceration in India by Jhilmil Breckenridge

“…I also argue psychiatry and the patriarchy are tools of oppression and how India and most other societies continue to perpetuate trauma in those they are trying to help. …”
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La littérature féminine au Maroc : témoignage d’une condition et voix / voie pour l’émancipation by Omar Benjelloun, Khaoula Zerrad

“…La littérature se présente alors pour elles, longtemps victimes de discrimination, d’injustice, d’asservissement et d’exclusion, comme un défi leur permettant de lutter contre l’oppression, d’arracher leurs droits et jouir de l’émancipation. …”
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Indian Women in Comedy: by Mridula Sharma

“…This misconception is coupled with online aggression by men’s rights activists who position feminist debates as sources of male oppression. However, media practices and consumption processes continue to maintain the supremacy of the male gender identity, which strengthens the process of transforming social media into a component of the “manosphere.” …”
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