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Domination
The term domination comes from the Latin dominus, the master or lord of the household who rules over his household with absolute power. Dominium, a related word, designates ownership as well as rule over others. Accordingly, slavery appears as an instance, perhaps the key instance, of domination. More generally, political theorists tend to grasp domination as a particularly intense or extreme form of power or rule involving the systematic subordination of some human beings to others such that the subordinated are vulnerable to the arbitrary will, and violence, of those who dominate.
Domination is frequently tied to exploitation, for example, exploitation of labor in Marxism and of sexual labor in some strands of feminism. While those who are dominated often seek liberation, as in women's liberation ...
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