John Gray offered a blueprint for a widely adopted, late-modern “patriarchal bargain,” to use the feminist political-economist Deniz Kandiyoti’s term, wherein women who perceive feminism to threaten their symbolic capital, safety, or respectability could choose instead a set of private, interpersonal negotiations (such as performing dramatic displays of gratitude when male partners engage in equitable behavior).65 Drawing from numerous global examples, Kandioyoti illustrates that many women “would rather adopt interpersonal strategies that maximize their security through manipulation of the
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