POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power
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        • Power as influence
        • Powerful and powerless
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        • Power is not a thing
        • Power of speech
        • Power of mind
        • Power on/off
        • Privilege
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        • Responsibility, blame and power
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        • Synonyms of power
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        • Theory of micro- and macropower
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        • What is power?
        • Willpower
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Gender and Power

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What you see here is a page of my hypertext book POWER of meanings // MEANINGS of power. Initially empty, this page will slowly be filled with thoughts, notes, and quotes. One day, I will use them to write a coherent entry, similar to these completed pages. See this post to better understand my creative process. Thank you for your interest and patience! 
Connect to "corrupted by power"

Harari in Sapiens raises an important question. How come men came to dominate women in most societies? He lists three three theories that essentialize gender. Is essentialization (men dominate women because men are [insert description]) the only answer? If not, what can explain this consistency across cultures?
Possible explanation: women were spending more time taking care of children (biology, human offspring need many years to become independent), while men were protectors, which meant that men were exposed to violence and needed to use violence to protect their families, which backfired as this lead to suppression of empathy and to trauma that (untreated) propelled men to use violent behaviors in their own families (paradox, since they were also using violence outside of the family to protect the family)

​Under pressure: see Encanto song

Blanchett told BBC Radio 4, the film was a "meditation on power, and power is genderless" (TAR)

Men and war (find the controversial meme something like "she did not have right to vote, he could not have right to live" picture woman suffragist next to a soldier mutilated by war)
All quiet on the eastern front (novel and film)
Summer in the country (novel and film)

Conversation with my professor:
Me: Both and women suffer from how the social system is
My professor: but men have more power to change this system

  • About
  • Introduction
  • Browse the book
    • Completed pages
    • All the pages alphabetically >
      • A >
        • Absolute power
      • B >
        • Benefits of understanding power
        • Binary thinking
        • Buddhism
      • C >
        • Circumstances and Power
        • Choice
        • Choosing meanings
        • Corrupted by power
      • D >
        • Dancing in high heels
        • Discovering your power
      • E >
        • Empowerment
      • F >
        • Foucault's "power is everywhere"
        • Free will
      • G >
        • Gender and power
      • H >
        • Having power and using power
        • How everybody is powerful
        • How everybody is powerless
      • I >
        • Improving mental abilities
        • In control
        • Inequality
        • Influencing each other
        • Intentionality and power
      • L >
        • Language has power over us
        • Limited resources
        • Louis XIV and Absolute Power
      • M >
        • Macropower: Power of Meanings
        • Main theories of power
        • "May" power
        • Meanings of power that are not directly related to social power
        • Meanings
        • Micropower: ability and influence
        • Mindfulness
        • (Mis)understanding of power in media texts
        • Money and Power
        • My synesthetic perception of "power"
      • P >
        • Power and knowledge
        • Power as ability
        • Power as a chess game
        • Power as influence
        • Powerful and powerless
        • "Power" in language
        • Power is not a thing
        • Power of speech
        • Power of mind
        • Power on/off
        • Privilege
      • R >
        • Responsibility, blame and power
      • S >
        • Synonyms of power
      • T >
        • Theory of micro- and macropower
      • W >
        • What is power?
        • Willpower
  • Author
    • My process