South Asia’s women are shackled by a myriad of social customs and beliefs that embrace and straddle the patriarchy.” Kamla Bhasin. Observing right from the period of Aristotle, who regarded a woman’s rightful place as her house, because of her ‘special abilities’ as a wife, mother and householder, while a man acquired that a woman’s function was to “keep and store”, a path for differences and...
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