Rituals of Liberation: Phenomenology, Oppression, and the Spiritual

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This article argues that sites of coercion and oppression are generated through repeated acts or "ritual practices"that serve to shape psychic space. The author draws on Simone de Beauvoir's account of oppression to articulate three different categories of "sites of coercion"- geographic, embodied, and spiritual - and argues that amelioration of such sites of coercion requires the cultivation of "rituals of liberation,"which serve to restructure psychic space in ways that foster genuine reciprocity.

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Simone De Beauvoir Studies

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