Two brilliant new films - “The Great Indian Kitchen” and “Mrs” - illuminate a fundamental aspect of patriarchy: the expectation that women silently serve their families, without recognition or reward.
I've been a fan of your blog for a while now, and was the main reason I signed up for Substack. Your analysis of the ‘Patrilocal Trap’ is a powerful framework that's stuck with me - cinematic and cultural tropes to bring those systemic issues to life is a great application of that lens.
As an Indian living abroad in a very different society (New Zealand), I've been thinking about another facet of our modern condition: the sense of "running in place" where institutional and cultural inertia keeps us from real progress. I’ve written a piece exploring this idea further, considering how even when it seems like change is happening, we might just be reinforcing the status quo.
It's written from a slightly different viewpoint of how class-coded expectations of leisure continue to hold Indian women back, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on whether this parallel holds up in your view. Here’s my take if you’re interested in checking it out:
Exogamie and patrilocality in patrilinear communautarist families is viewed as brutal in China, Russia or India . Some tends to say that Endogamie ( in patrilocal and patrilinear communautarist societies ) which has fallen in several states ( Morrocco, Egypt, Algeria ) was softer because of the "grooming" of the bride which was to marry with her cousin and stay within a familiar environnement still under scrutiny of her father and brothers . It is still very seclusive and i wonder if and how it changed since 2005 .
Another stellar read!
I've been a fan of your blog for a while now, and was the main reason I signed up for Substack. Your analysis of the ‘Patrilocal Trap’ is a powerful framework that's stuck with me - cinematic and cultural tropes to bring those systemic issues to life is a great application of that lens.
As an Indian living abroad in a very different society (New Zealand), I've been thinking about another facet of our modern condition: the sense of "running in place" where institutional and cultural inertia keeps us from real progress. I’ve written a piece exploring this idea further, considering how even when it seems like change is happening, we might just be reinforcing the status quo.
It's written from a slightly different viewpoint of how class-coded expectations of leisure continue to hold Indian women back, but I’d love to hear your thoughts on whether this parallel holds up in your view. Here’s my take if you’re interested in checking it out:
https://csthinks.substack.com/p/running-in-place-with-distinction?r=1kld54
CS
Nice read indeed !
Exogamie and patrilocality in patrilinear communautarist families is viewed as brutal in China, Russia or India . Some tends to say that Endogamie ( in patrilocal and patrilinear communautarist societies ) which has fallen in several states ( Morrocco, Egypt, Algeria ) was softer because of the "grooming" of the bride which was to marry with her cousin and stay within a familiar environnement still under scrutiny of her father and brothers . It is still very seclusive and i wonder if and how it changed since 2005 .