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Examine ‘patriarchal bargain’ as gendered division of work in contemporary India.

  • UPSC 2017
  • Systems of Kinship

Deniz Kandiyoti ("Bargaining with Patriarchy", 1988) coined the patriarchal bargain: the strategies women adopt within a given patriarchal system to maximise security, often by accepting present subordination for protection and later authority. Read as a gendered division of work, it suggests Indian women accept the double burden and restrictions on paid work as the price…

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  • The bargain in the division of work
  • Limits of the concept
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