pseudo-liberation

English

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.