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The paper attempts to trace the history of the debate on the relationship between men and women since the days of the overthrow of matriarchy and placing the institution of property at the centrality of this debate. Beginning with the classical debates of Morgan-Engels, the paper looks at the current debates on gendered and gendering practices, glass ceiling hypothesis and gender as a social structure. Indicating the inherent flaws of the existing concepts and methods, a blueprint of the possible theoretical outline has been attempted by moving from individual subjectivity to plural objectivity, by challenging the locus of research, dilemma and jeopardy of gender studies, thus giving way to a new approach of gender as a social fact.
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Shekhar, I., Dhar, R. (2018). Gender Studies: A Theoretical Perspective. In: NILERD (eds) Reflecting on India’s Development. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1414-8_11
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