Bargaining With Patriarchy Analysis

Deniz Kandiyoti, emeritus professor of Development Studies at University of London in her article Bargaining with Patriarchy by means of comparative analyses of different regions namely, the sub-Saharan Africa and South and East Asia and The Muslim Middle East explores different negotiation strategies employed by women within a given set of restrictions set in place by different patriarchal societies which Kandiyoti terms as ‘patriarchal bargains’ and states that female strategies for subsisting in face of oppression changes with different forms of patriarchy in different parts and cultures of the world and this gives a better understanding of patriarchy, a term that Kandiyoti claims is most overused in the contemporary feminism mostly rather

So it only makes sense that they oppose such changes to maintain their autonomy and they do so openly. A rather explicit form of bargaining exists where there is open negotiation maintaining a trade-off between women’s autonomy and men’s responsibility for their wives. But if the women were to lose the autonomy and marketplace value without gaining anything in marital status, this balance would tilt negatively in the favor of the

She also points out how the subject of gender violence still remains a taboo in the eastern part of the world which I think might be one of the contributing factors for its continued prevalence.