Freedom from desire, to desire

• 主要作者: Wong, Perlyn Pei Ning
• 其他作者: Grace Boey
• 格式: Final Year Project
• 語言: English
• 出版: Nanyang Technological University 2025
• 主題: Arts and Humanities; Philosophy
• 在線閱讀: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/183194
• 機構: Nanyang Technological University

Desire satisfaction as a conception of wellbeing can involve satisfying desires that range from a yearning to own the latest designer handbag, to crafting a will when it comes to how one wishes to manage and distribute property that they own. In societies that adopt a largely systemic patriarchal infrastructure, women find themselves and their desires falling prey to this seemingly invisible yet persisting gender injustice, where their perceptions of what contributes positively to their wellbeing faces a great danger of being coerced in favor of patriarchal norms. My paper will thus expose the manipulative forces of a patriarchal infrastructure in shaping the nature of a woman’s desire and reveal how coerced some of these desires end up being. In addition, I will evaluate the ways in which women can achieve freedom from coerced desires, to have desires of their own.