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By Jessica Valenti

ISBN-10: 0786750499

ISBN-13: 9780786750498

Double criteria are not anything new. girls take care of them each day. Take the typical truism that girls who sleep round are sluts whereas males are studs. Why is it that males develop individual and sexily grey as they age whereas ladies simply get baggy and haggard? have you questioned how a tender lady is meant to either virginal and provocatively engaging while? Isn’t it unfair that operating mothers are categorized “bad” for concentrating on their careers whereas we shake our heads in disbelief once we pay attention concerning the occasional stay-at-home dad?

In 50 Double criteria each girl may still be aware of, Jessica Valenti, writer of complete Frontal Feminism, calls out the double criteria that have an effect on each lady. even if Jessica is stating the salary incomes discrepancies among women and men or revealing the entire locations that girls nonetheless aren’t equivalent to their male counterparts—be it within the place of work, court docket, bed room, or home—she keeps her signature wittily sarcastic tone. With sass, humor, and in-your-face proof, this e-book informs and equips ladies with the instruments they should strive against sexist reviews, topple ridiculous stereotypes (girls aren’t stable at math?), and finish the merchandising of lame double criteria.

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25 36. Frankenberg and Mani, 307. 37. Norma Alarcon, “The Theoretical Subject(s) of This Bridge Called My Back and Anglo American Feminism,” in Making Face, Making Soul, Haciendo Caras: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Women of Color, ed. Gloria Anzaldua, (San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1990), 356. 38. Frankenberg. See also Evelyn Torton Beck, “The Politics of Jewish Invisibility,” NWSA Journal (fall 1988): 93–102. 3 Bargaining with Patriarchy DENIZ KANDIYOTI Of all the concepts generated by contemporary feminist theory, patriarchy is probably the most overused and, in some respects, the most undertheorized.

As a result, a Turkish woman’s traditional position more closely resembles the status of the “stranger-bride” typical of prerevolutionary China than that of an Arab woman whose position in the patriarchal household may be somewhat attenuated by endogamy and recourse to her natal kin. Whether the prevalent marriage payment is dowry or bride-price, in classic patriarchy, women do not normally have any claim on their father’s patrimony. Their dowries do not qualify as a form of premortem inheritance since they are transferred directly to the bridegroom’s kin and do not take the form of produc- BARGAINING WITH PATRIARCHY tive property, such as land (Agarwal 1987; Sharma 1980).

Typically, it is the woman who is primarily responsible for her own and her children’s upkeep, including meeting the costs of their education, with variable degrees of assistance from her husband. Women have very little to gain and a lot to lose by becoming totally dependent on husbands, and hence they quite rightly resist projects that tilt the delicate balance they strive to maintain. In their protests, wives are safeguarding already existing spheres of autonomy. Documentation of a genuine trade-off between women’s autonomy and men’s responsibility for their wives can be found in some historical examples.

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