Motherhood - a role or the only role?
ABSTRACT This paper deals with the core phenomenon through which patriarchy is perpetrated in Indian society - via the control of feminine sexuality. It explores the various narratives that society feeds women including ones about being subservient and obeying the men in their lives. Marriage, an institution which should in an ideal and fundamentally free world represent a sense of comfort, performs the exact opposite function in Indian society. Additionally, it analyse the text ‘Enforcing Cultural Codes: Gender and Violence in Northern India’ by Prem Chowdhary, by highlighting the social evil of violence that follows inter-caste marriages in the Indian context. Inter caste marriages are examples of women flouting the norms set by society and exercising control over their sexuality by deciding who they wish to marry. In conclusion, the paper looks at the way this act instead of being seen as an act of freedom is seen as an act of audacity - an act which challenges set hierarchie...

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