Rational Unfreedom

Unfreedom is the "domination of one's instincts, domination that society makes into second nature and that perpetuates the institutions of domination. But civilized unfreedom is oppression of a particular kind: it is rational unfreedom, rational domination. It is rational to the extent that it makes possible the ascent from a human animal to a human being, from nature to civilization..."
(The Essential Marcuse, p. 168)

Quote from "The Sex/Gender System" section, Social Policy and Aging text:

According to Brown... women face the "rational unfreedom regulated by the state" versus their state of "nature" in which there is arbitrary violence by men against them as women. The state meets the requirement of men to protect women from the violence that men cause. The role of dependency in the health and aging of women is explored in greater detail in both Chapter 6 and Chapter 7.

Social Policy and Aging, p. 9-10