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What is Patriarchy? How have the women’s movements confronted the norms of Patriarchy?

  • UPSC 2008
  • Systems of Kinship in India

Patriarchy is not merely male dominance at home; it is a structural arrangement distributing work, property, authority and sexuality by sex. The Indian women's movement confronted it in three phases, each defined by who holds the microphone, and its record is legal victory alongside structural continuity.

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  • What patriarchy is
  • Phase one: reform for women (nineteenth century)
  • Phase two: organisation and nationalism
  • Phase three: autonomous feminism, from the 1970s
  • The internal critique, and the limits
  • Conclusion

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