![]() This summarises succinctly the arguments laid forth in the section titled “Family”, where Menon draws on her years of political knowledge of Indian law to examine the power structures and struggles within what we take for granted as “normal”. We tend to take this frame for granted, and it becomes obscenely visible only in extraordinary circumstances. The family is an institution that rigidly enforces systems of inheritance and descent and in this structure, individuals – sons, daughters, wives, husbands – are resources that are strictly bound by the violence, implicit and explicit, of this frame. ![]() The first part of Seeing Like a Feminist, which marks the longest “opening chapter” I’ve read so far at fifty pages or so, concludes thus: ![]()
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