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  • noun Plural form of othering.

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Examples

  • The incursion fantasy carries more than a hint of demonisation and abjection, of otherings and paranoid projection; the strange is the weird, the repressed whose return is a threat precisely because of the pathological nature of that repression.

    Notes on Strange Fiction: Seams Hal Duncan 2008

  • The incursion fantasy carries more than a hint of demonisation and abjection, of otherings and paranoid projection; the strange is the weird, the repressed whose return is a threat precisely because of the pathological nature of that repression.

    Archive 2008-08-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Other otherings are important and the subject of the attention of all feminists, including radical feminists, but radical feminists attend first and foremost to this one, which is so central in so many ways.

    Alas, a blog » 2005 » December 2005

  • Other otherings are important and the subject of the attention of all feminists, including radical feminists, but radical feminists attend first and foremost to this one, which is so central in so many ways.

    Is The Oppression of Women The Root Of All Oppressions? 2005

  • Other otherings are important and the subject of the attention of all feminists, including radical feminists, but radical feminists attend first and foremost to this one, which is so central in so many ways.

    Why Alas Needs Radical Feminist Woman Only Threads 2005

  • “If there’s to be fresh otherings — just when I getten used to two maisters, if I mun hev a mistress set o’er my heead, it’s like time to be flitting.

    Wuthering Heights 2002

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