Here on the second floor Boston's great orators raised their voices against British tyranny, against slavery, and female oppression.

Rubin argues that historical patterns of female oppression have constructed this role for women in capitalist societies.

Such recent use has decisively transformed the standard 20 th century emblem of female oppression back into the erotic device it always was.

The film explored the ills of the dowry system as well as touching on the problems of female oppression in 19th century Bengal.

She doesn't succumb to the simple-minded idea that male honor inevitably requires female oppression.

Denying the right to abortion can be construed from this perspective as a form of female oppression under a patriarchal system, perpetuating inequality between the sexes.

There's a great deal of female oppression as well.

Opera, in other words, is no different from the other artistic products of our culture; it records a tale of male domination and female oppression.

One music critic described their approach as "levity" between heavy songs about "God, church, death, female oppression, self-suppression, mothers and daughters."

Anyway, maybe it is a symbol of female oppression, but I grew up before that revision, and I really want a ring.