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Women’s Liberation and the Agrarian Question: Insights from Peasant Movements in India

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This article explores some questions arising from recent debates on patriarchy and capitalism. The focus is on the role of women in communist-led peasant movements in India and the implications of such struggles on the project of women’s emancipation. The first section lays out a framework for discussing the interface between class consciousness and the anti-patriarchal project, whereby patriarchy is located within the structural contradictions arising out of the contestations within the process of accumulation. The second section documents the historical context, focusing on the relationship between land reforms and social transformation in semi-feudal and early capitalist contexts, and analyzes the extent to which communist-led struggles are anti-patriarchal in character. The third section turns to the participation of women in the contemporary struggles of both agricultural workers and peasant movements and underlines the new emerging dialectics between women’s and peasant organizations under a neoliberal state and with deepening agrarian distress.

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  • Archana Prasad, 2021. "Women’s Liberation and the Agrarian Question: Insights from Peasant Movements in India," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 10(1), pages 15-40, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:agspub:v:10:y:2021:i:1:p:15-40
    DOI: 10.1177/2277976020987045
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