The act of understanding our construction as agents and controls of social processes is itself a kind of intervention in the creation of exclusive knowledge schemes Perhaps the greatest difficulty lies in relating the ideological to the experiential; that is.

The act of understanding our construction as agents and controls of social processes is itself a kind of intervention in the creation of exclusive knowledge schemes Perhaps the greatest difficulty lies in relating the ideological to the experiential; that is, of relating various symbolic organizes to the lives and actions of women and in relating the frequently hegemonic ideologies produced about women (converging across region, caste and class) to existing divisions of labour and orders of production. (1)

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This paper's epigraph is taken from Recasting Women: Essays in Colonial History, Kum Kum Sangari and Sudesh Vaid's definitive collection of essays