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pseudo-liberation en · NOUN

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1. (alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable) Alternative form of pseudoliberation.
   alt of pseudoliberation
   • 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:
   • 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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