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64 pages
First published August 23, 2006
In a recent work of research on feminists in Kerala, one of the interviewees commented that patriarchy in the Malayalee public is difficult to pin down because it is 'so much in the air'. I think this turn of phrase is significant: there is a way in which modern patriarchy in Kerala resembles air pollution. It is so pervasive that one may not notice it unless one observes closely, and with the help of powerful tools."