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Discuss the material basis of patriarchy as an ideological system.
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- Systems of Kinship in India
Gerda Lerner (The Creation of Patriarchy, 1986) dated patriarchy's beginning to the second millennium BCE in Mesopotamia, arriving with the state, class and the appropriation of women's reproductive capacity. If it was made, something made it. Patriarchy is best defined as an institutionalised appropriation of women's productive and reproductive labour — carried in belief, resting…
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- The property thesis and its limits
- Labour as the deeper base
- The Indian material base
- The belief the arrangement requires
- Measuring the base, and testing whether it has moved
- Conclusion
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