The book “What is Patriarchy?” by Kamla Bhasin is foundational reading about the concept of patriarchy. The book covers the notion about women and men relationship under societal framework, equality and how we should address this issue. The book is in the format of Question and Answer manner. Patriarchy is defined and explained from different point of views: Marxist feminist, socialist feminist, radical feminist and liberal ones. The book explains patriarchy and state of women in the arena of South Asia.
The book illustrates about the women and the society of South Asia and theories regarding origin of patriarchy in India, as the author born on 24th of April 1946 is an Indian development feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. …show more content…
The term Patriarchy means rule of father, and it was used to describe a specific type of ‘male-dominated family’. Now it is used more generally to refer to male domination and to characterise a system women are kept subordinate in a number of ways. Patriarchy or discrimination of women can be seen and taken as example from the very basic relation and treatment of women in home, working place: from the family being unhappy when girl was born to no share in father’s property to submission to body to husband.etc. Sylvia Walby in her book calls patriarchy as a system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress and exploit women. Women is a subordinate one, which is linked with the ideology that men are …show more content…
The traditional view of patriarchy where women subordination is universal, god- given and natural which is denied by many theories and has explored the origin of patriarchy by radical feminist, social feminist. The origin of patriarch in South Asia was from the Brahmanical period – the division of caste , class gender slowly led to
The book illustrates about the women and the society of South Asia and theories regarding origin of patriarchy in India, as the author born on 24th of April 1946 is an Indian development feminist activist, poet, author and social scientist. …show more content…
The term Patriarchy means rule of father, and it was used to describe a specific type of ‘male-dominated family’. Now it is used more generally to refer to male domination and to characterise a system women are kept subordinate in a number of ways. Patriarchy or discrimination of women can be seen and taken as example from the very basic relation and treatment of women in home, working place: from the family being unhappy when girl was born to no share in father’s property to submission to body to husband.etc. Sylvia Walby in her book calls patriarchy as a system of social structures and practices in which men dominate, oppress and exploit women. Women is a subordinate one, which is linked with the ideology that men are …show more content…
The traditional view of patriarchy where women subordination is universal, god- given and natural which is denied by many theories and has explored the origin of patriarchy by radical feminist, social feminist. The origin of patriarch in South Asia was from the Brahmanical period – the division of caste , class gender slowly led to