{"id":968,"date":"2026-08-09T18:45:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-09T13:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/pyq\/discuss-the-feminist-theory-of-the-state-upsc-psir-2016-0201\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T21:23:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T15:53:09","slug":"discuss-the-feminist-theory-of-the-state-upsc-psir-2016-0201","status":"publish","type":"psir_pyq","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/psir-pyq\/discuss-the-feminist-theory-of-the-state-upsc-psir-2016-0201\/","title":{"rendered":"Discuss the Feminist theory of the State."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pq-flow\">\n<div class=\"pq-flow-h\">Flow snapshot <em>\u2014 how the answer moves<\/em><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p1\"><span>Intro routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> state is no neutral arbiter <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> male power built into law, bureaucracy, welfare<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> \u201cpersonal is political\u201d (<b class=\"pq-sc\">Hanisch<\/b>) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> public-private divide broken<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p2\"><span>Body flow<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>liberal: state reformable (<b class=\"pq-sc\">Wollstonecraft<\/b>) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> \u201ctoo institutional\u201d critique <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> Marxist: oppression tied to capital + domestic labour (<b class=\"pq-sc\">Engels<\/b>) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> radical: patriarchal in structure <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> sexual contract (<b class=\"pq-sc\">Pateman<\/b>) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> state is male, law sees women as men do (<b class=\"pq-sc\">MacKinnon<\/b>) <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> public-private split hides domination<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p3\"><span>Counter-view<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p>universalising all states as patriarchal risks essentialism <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> variation across class, race, caste<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-fb\">\n<div class=\"pq-pill p4\"><span>Conclusion routes<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"pq-ft\">\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 1<\/i> state not gender-neutral <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> formal equality insufficient<\/p>\n<p class=\"pq-r\"><i class=\"pq-rt\">Route 2<\/i> neither enemy nor saviour <span class=\"pq-ar\">\u2192<\/span> gendered terrain of struggle<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"pyq_year":[42],"pyq_marks":[35],"pyq_topic":[44],"pyq_paper":[33],"class_list":["post-968","psir_pyq","type-psir_pyq","status-publish","hentry","pyq_year-42","pyq_marks-15-marks","pyq_topic-theories-of-the-state","pyq_paper-paper-1"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/psir_pyq"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4562,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/psir_pyq\/968\/revisions\/4562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"pyq_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_year?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_marks","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_marks?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_topic?post=968"},{"taxonomy":"pyq_paper","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/psir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pyq_paper?post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}