pseudo-liberation

A form of pseudoliberation — False liberation; The process or instance of appearing to be liberation while not actually liberating.

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Meanings

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

plural pseudo-liberations

  1. alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of pseudoliberation.

    Its chief effect, perhaps, is to remind us that we live in an age not of liberation but of pseudo-liberation.

    2015, Barry Keith Grant, The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film, page 401
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    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.

    1977, Family Welfare and Development in Africa

    Pop art's subsequent celebration of the commodity world seemed like no more than pseudo-liberation to Marcuse.

    2007, Herbert Marcuse, Douglas Kellner, Art and Liberation: Collected Papers of Herbert Marcuse
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