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To what extent is patriarchy a cause for the problems of women? Discuss.

  • UPSC 2016
  • Systems of Kinship

Women's problems include threats to survival, violence, unpaid and undervalued work, weak property rights and under-representation. Radical feminists such as Kate Millett (Sexual Politics, 1970) and Shulamith Firestone (The Dialectic of Sex, 1970) treat patriarchy as their root cause. Other feminist traditions point to class, caste and the state as well. This answer argues that…

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