Reparation or Negotiation: Rural Women's Struggle for Selfhood and Livelihood

Abstract

Academics have mapped rural women’s negotiation with institutional social structures, which include patriarchy and government for a long time, and, as a consequence, they demarcated a typical structure of the relationship pattern without analyzing the role of nature between women and society (Mazumdar 1987; Agarwal 2000; UN Women 2013; Chadwick and Mavuso 2021). Since the 1960s, when slogans such as ‘personal is political’ were theorized through multiple feminist movements along with other social movements that were primarily based on the Marxist concept of revolution, the attempts to understand the relationship between women and their vulnerability amidst natural disasters have been given a new avenue. These have converged the gradual formation of institutionalization of negotiation patterns of women who are facing multidimensional violence due to natural disasters of various kinds (Agarwal 2000; Chadwick and Mavuso 2021).