self-agency

What did bother me about Hit-Girl was her complete lack of self-agency.

Girls and Guns: Understanding the Gender Politics of Kick-Ass « Gender Across Borders 2010

But what struck me was his religious language -- and his implicit claim of self-agency in interpreting the voice of God as he hears it.

Adele Stan: God Wins Big At Academy Awards 2009

While it is certainly true that some women willingly choose to live a polygamous lifestyle, not all women entering such relationships are acting on their own self-agency.

Women Weigh In On “Polygamy Club” « Gender Across Borders 2009

This is basically that working-class self-agency is a very good thing & we have a great tradition of mutual, voluntary & cooperative behaviour.

Is fairness enough? Alix Mortimer 2008

In a new study that investigates how healthy individuals and schizophrenia patients interpret their visual worlds, scientists have shed light on the question of whether a broad disruption in the ability to ascribe self-agency might be related to symptoms of schizophrenia.

Comments and Replies 2005

Poor indemnity for natural rights of self-agency so pertinaciously, so insultingly denied!

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

Poor indemnity for natural rights of self-agency so pertinaciously, so insultingly denied!

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840

Poor indemnity for natural rights of self-agency so pertinaciously, so insultingly denied!

William Wilson 1839

Poor indemnity for natural rights of self-agency so pertinaciously, so insultingly denied!

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

The link between memory and self-agency is, in and of itself, a fascinating subject, but Verrette’s treatment of it makes the film frustrating to watch.

Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2009