pseudo-liberation

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Noun

pseudo-liberation (countable and uncountable, plural pseudo-liberations)

  1. Alternative form of pseudoliberation
    • 1977, Family Welfare and Development in Africa:
      In many developed societies the sexual liberation movement has become a pseudo-liberation which has exchanged old taboos, morals and disciplinary patterns for openly exposed and commercialised sex, a no less repressive situation than before.
    • 2007, Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Art and Liberation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse:
      Pop art's subsequent celebration of the commodity world seemed like no more than pseudo-liberation to Marcuse.
    • 2015, Barry Keith Grant, The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, page 401:
      Its chief effect, perhaps, is to remind us that we live in an age not of liberation but of pseudo-liberation.