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disempower [ˌdɪsɪmˈpaʊə] vb
(tr) to deprive (a person) of power or authority disempowerment n How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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``This disempowers the existing school board, but I don't think it's a serious injury. She quotes Lisa Lowe approvingly to the effect that strategic essentialism can be used if you plan to attack social practices hostile to Asian Americans; you may be excused using a term like Asian American if you avoid falling into the essentialist trap by foregrounding "internal contradictions and slippages" attaching to the concept Asian American, so that the essentialism cannot be "proliferated by the very apparatuses we seek to disempower. As part of her analysis, she describes birth practices of indigenous cultures to demonstrate the degree to which medicalized birth disempowers women. |
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