By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they become a necessary part of the system, useful so long as they serve to contain the stirrings and strivings of the oppressed. By making the rules and values of their oppressor their own, they separate themselves from the rest of their group and, temporarily at least, assuage the pain of their stigmatized status.
No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it. - Lillian B. Rubin
No revolution creates a wholly new universe. Rather, it reflects the history and culture that spawned it.
- Lillian B. Rubin
By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they b… - Lillian B. Rubin
By identifying with the powerful, the disempowered achieve a measure of safety, at least for a moment. By doing the bidding of those in power, they b…
Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independ… - Lillian B. Rubin
Children crawl before they walk, walk before they run--each generally a precondition for the other. And with each step they take toward more independ…
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks. - Lillian B. Rubin
We are a society that values a man for what he does in the world, a woman for how she looks.
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insul… - Lillian B. Rubin
For those who have lived on the edge of poverty all their lives, the semblance of poverty affected by the affluent is both incomprehensible and insul…
Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexua… - Lillian B. Rubin
Interesting, isn't it, that even though more than two and a half decades have passed since the sexual revolution brought women a new measure of sexua…
Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they chan… - Lillian B. Rubin
Women find ways to give sense and meaning to daily life--ways to be useful in the community, to keep mind active and soul growingeven while they chan…
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next. - Lillian B. Rubin
The ideal visions of one age eventually are seen as its excesses by the next.
Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one. - Lillian B. Rubin
Whatever else we may say about sex, it is at least as much a social and psychological phenomenon as it is a biological one.
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