In either case, seeing themselves as powerless victims, the result is that they cannot envision any actions that they can take to bring about change.

What she, as a product of the sexual "revolution," fails to understand, though, is that women are already powerless victims.

This is everyone's crisis; either women continue to be powerless victims, or men become vulnerable to accusations against which they have no recourse.

Indian women are shown as downtrodden and powerless victims, unlike American women who have more freedom.

He rightly sensed that his whole world had changed and that he was no longer a powerless victim of the forces around him.

Most interesting perhaps is his conclusion that despite Anna's failure to achieve satisfaction in the courts, "women at this time were not powerless victims of male rule."

There's a trans-Atlantic tendency for stakeholders in both countries to see themselves largely as powerless victims of a global economy.

But while the 1,000 or so people of Seadrift see themselves as the powerless victims of a despoiled habitat, others list them among the despoilers.

Fish farmers are, then, too often the powerless victims of tragedies such as that involving the Prestige.

In assigning so much power to white society, they say, the theories have the potential to make blacks think of themselves as powerless victims.