private sphere
collocation in Englishmeaningsofprivateandsphere
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private
adjective
uk/ˈpraɪ.vət/us/ˈpraɪ.vət/
only for one person or group and not ...
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sphere
noun[C]
uk/sfɪər/us/sfɪr/
an object shaped like a ...
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(Definition ofprivateandspherefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofprivate sphere
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For women, a symbol of their control of theprivatesphereresides in their use of talk to manipulate, modify, and fashion social relations.
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The active talk produced when women 'gossip' concerns exactly those kinds of topics that are considered to be in theprivatesphere.
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He argues, however, that women's relegation to theprivatespherecannot be equated with powerlessness.
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In theprivatesphere, payment is on a fee for service basis.
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But because it is originally a register of theprivatesphere, it is constructed as resistant to censuring.
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Differences in the context of social activities were less marked for women, whose friendships were more often conducted in theprivatesphere.
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In theprivatesphere, however, where activities dealing with individual family or limited numbers of relationships take place, women control much of the action.
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The definition of aprivatesphereis not a pre- or extra-political fact, but something that is achieved through politics.
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Mentioning names and situations referring to theprivatesphereis a sure way of singularizing one's acknowledgments.
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In ecological citizenship theprivatesphereof the household is recognised as a crucial site of citizenship activity.
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Men, too, take part in talk regarding topics in theprivatesphere: personal relationships, childrearing, and interpersonal conduct.
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Women are most active in and control theprivatesphere.
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Women are considered to be the managers of theprivatesphere, taking steps to maintain appropriate familial and cultural structures.
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Marxian critics have read the expanding consumer marketplace as merely another arena for sexist oppression, in many ways worse than theprivatesphere.
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But equally, domestic violence can escalate following a conflict when soldiers rejoin civilian life and continue to be violent in theprivatesphere(ibid.).
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Currently, domestic violence is considered to be within the realm of theprivatesphereand is shrouded by concealed bans.
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They constituted an indispensableprivatespherefor petty business, societies of women and the town-country relationships which criss-crossed institutional and urban boundaries.
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