“Our institutions, so ad hoc and dysfunctional when it counts, have displayed a surpassing efficiency at reinforcing gender identity. Somehow, we ensure that men and women inhale what society expects of them, and magically, most of us play out our respective gender identities and idioms. Men must earn money and women must earn love.”
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Desperately Seeking Shah Rukh : India's Lonely Young Women and the Search for Intimacy and Independence
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