Sonalkar, Wandana <br/><br/>
An agenda for gender politics 

 -  1999 
 - p.24-29 
 - 2 & 9 Jan 
<br/><br/> Patriarchy in India starts with the control of women or men in the family but works in such a way as to perpetuate caste hierarchies; and the preservation of caste is the basis for the functioning of this patriarchy. Will the passage of the Women's Reservation Bill as it is, as a first measure, without a wide-ranging discussion of the underlying caste issues really empower women in the struggle against patriarchy in the social and political specificity of present-day India? - Reproduced 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Civil law - India<br/>Women in politics - India<br/>Women - India<br/>Women