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Comment in about 150 words: Feminist critique of the State.

  • UPSC 2021
  • 10 marks
  • Theories of the State

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The feminist critique of the state, sharpened by the second wave of the 1970s, rejects the liberal picture of a neutral umpire. Its charge is that the state's power is defined and exercised by men, or by structures built around a male citizen, so its norms and values are themselves constructions of patriarchal power.

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