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emancipation
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e·man·ci·pa·tion  (-mns-pshn)
n.
1. The act or an instance of emancipating.
2. The condition of being emancipated.

e·manci·pation·ist n.

emancipation [ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən]
n
1. the act of freeing or state of being freed; liberation
2. Informal freedom from inhibition and convention
emancipationist  n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.emancipation - freeing someone from the control of anotheremancipation - freeing someone from the control of another; especially a parent's relinquishing authority and control over a minor child
freeing, liberation, release - the act of liberating someone or something

emancipation
Translations
emancipation [ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən] N [of women, slaves] → emancipación f (fig) → liberación f
emancipation [ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃən] n [women, minority group] → émancipation f; [slave] → affranchissement m
emancipation
n (lit, fig)Emanzipation f; (of slave)Freilassung f; (of country, people)Befreiung f
emancipation [ɪˌmænsɪˈpeɪʃn] nemancipazione f


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quot;For the critical school, the subject is human emancipation and security social, and in this picture, the state would be rather a source of security problems and not its solution.
The FRUD Convinced that there is no possibility of change by way of the ballot box; Conscious that it would be dangerous, even criminal, to let this regime continue Calls on all the people, all the political, social and cultural forces to stand united and in a responsible manner for the struggle to end the life time presidency of Ismael Omar Guelleh and against the regime which stands opposed to all human emancipation and which destroys all that is noble and valorous in a human being.
Kissack insists at several points in his analysis that the anarchist sex radicals were not necessarily gay but rather, by applying the fundamental tenets of anarchy to the sexual question, they fought on the side of any oppressed group: "Anarchism was the only political movement of the time to treat issues of sexual liberation as fundamental to the project of human emancipation.
 
 
 
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