The natural question is how patriarchy is supporting and facilitating to sustain and maintain the caste system in India?
What is the patriarchal system?
The simple meaning of the patriarchal system is to the domination of man over women. The modern meaning of the patriarchal system is also including the supremacy of male over women including the third gender and LGBTQ. The modern meaning of the patriarchy goes beyond the biological supremacy of male over women.
What is patriarchy? What is the meaning of patriarchy?
The meaning of patriarchy is not only limited to the supremacy of the male over women in the family. The meaning of the patriarchy has wider concepts in the social sciences. This is more than the gender relation, gap nad natural ability of the gender. For example, the human male is stronger than the human female in terms of physical ability to do work. The human female have to give birth to the child, the human female has to suffer from other biological characteristics, which make her weaker than the human male. But this is not the basis of patriarchy. All these are natural and biological.
The concept and meaning of patriarchy have a broader meaning in society, social structure, social system, and social construction.
The concept of patriarchy is referring to a system of the social, economic, political, and institutional system, structured and operation around gender inequality, which is socially defined. This means that the concept of patriarchy is not referencing the biological difference rather a social and socially constructed differences.
The patriarchal system is collectively excluding women from full participation in political and economic life in society. These attributes can be seen as “feminine” or as pertaining to women are undervalued.
The patriarchal system and structure are dominating at both level, that is at private and public spheres.
The feminist activist and scholars have theorized that there is a link between patriarchy and capitalism, patriarchy and colonialism, patriarchy and nationalism, and patriarchy have also relationships with the other social phenomenon.
Patriarchal system, structure, and relations operate across the geographical boundaries at various scales, parameters. These systems, structures and relations affecting the social relations and identities in hierarchical relationships between different genders. These gendered relations are not limited to men and women but also included LGBT and other identities.
Therefore the patriarchal relations, system and structure are operating at the level of (human) body, public and private spheres, nationalism, citizenship, colonialism, and globalisation.
The patriarchy as a tool of analysing the social relations, system and structures are also criticised for over universalisation of the unequal relations between men and women as an ahistorical and acultural structured set of inequalities, seeming inflexible and resistant to change.
The criticism is coming from different social, cultural, structural, geographical, and economic realities.
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