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paternalism the attitude or policy of a government or other authority that manages the affairs of a country, company, community, etc., in the manner of a father, esp in usurping individual responsibility and the liberty of choice How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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The nanny-state, paternalist rent-seeking regimes in which we now live emerged from the vacuum in political philosophy. To the extent that Childers demonstrates the significance of gender to modern French political history, her Fathers, Families, and the State in France naturally prompts further questions related to the diffusion of paternalist social policies across 'little' and 'greater' France's variegated human geography. But ultimately it was the men, the Tshikona bands, who dominated the dancing spaces, corresponding to Mudzunga's own paternalist structuring of events and power-relations within the performance and beyond. |
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