Suffering and survival under patriarchy can themselves be modalities of agency.

Evidence

In this section I would like to return to the exploration of different modalities of agency whose operations escape the logic of resistance and subversion of norms. In what follows I will investigate how suff and survival-two modalities of existence that are often considered to be the antithesis of agency-came to be articulated within the lives of women who live under the pressures of a patriarchal system that requires them to conform to the rigid de.. — Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, 1131

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Exploitation requires subordinates capable of suffering, not just of laboring. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1706