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Persisting Patriarchy

Part of the New Approaches to Religion and Power Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21488-3

ISBN: 978-3-030-21487-6

Publisher: Springer International Publishing - Springer Journals

Aug 9, 2019

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Chapter 1Introduction

Abraham, Kochurani

Pages: 1 –18

[This chapter situates the gender paradox that signals to the persistence of patriarchy in India by taking India’s ranking in the Global Gender Gap Reports as indicators of the problematic. In this situation, the Catholic Syrian Christian community of Kerala, South India, is taken as a case of...
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Chapter 2‘Spatial’ Inscriptions of Kerala: The Historical and Sociocultural Context of Catholic Syrian Christians

Abraham, Kochurani

Pages: 19 –51

[Gender and space being intrinsically connected within a patriarchal cultural framework, the notion of space is taken as a critical category of analysis in this chapter. The spatial inscriptions of Kerala, its landscape and evolutionary story, its human geography delineated by class and caste...
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Chapter 3Theorizing Patriarchy: An Inquiry into the Politics of Domination

Abraham, Kochurani

Pages: 53 –81

[Insights into the structural framework of gender relations in a given society can be gained by examining the theoretical notions of patriarchy that have evolved in that particular context. This is the main thrust of this chapter. After clarifying the problematic posed by postmodernists in...
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Chapter 4Politics of Gender: The Undercurrents of Patriarchy in the Life of Catholic Syrian Christian Women

Abraham, Kochurani

Pages: 83 –141

[The undercurrents of patriarchy in the life of Catholic Syrian Christian women is examined critically using the key of ‘politics of gender’ in this chapter. Perceptions and narration of experiences indicate that hegemonic notions of masculinity and femininity are persistently performed by women...
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Chapter 5Religion and Patriarchy: Gendered Inscriptions on Religious Beliefs and Practices

Abraham, Kochurani

Pages: 143 –165

[Religion, being one of the greatest identity markers of human beings along with other social factors such as caste, class and ethnicity, its role in the construction of gender identity is critically examined in this chapter. This is done by reading the experiences of Catholic Syrian Christian...
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Chapter 6The Politics of Negotiating and Subverting Patriarchy

Abraham, Kochurani

Pages: 167 –199

[This chapter foregrounds the main thrust of this work, that is, women addressing and challenging patriarchy that has a persistent character in their lives. Taking cognizance of the fact that Catholic Syrian Christian women function within gendered boundaries which are physical as well as...
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Chapter 7Conclusion: From Politics of Survival to Politics of Subversion

Abraham, Kochurani

Pages: 201 –215

[Women engage in patriarchal negotiations in view of creating a space for their personal well-being. However, these negotiations tend to remain as a ‘politics of survival’, which do not address the structural inequalities of the established order. Since patriarchy is deeply entrenched in the...

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