Persisting Patriarchy by Kochurani Abraham

Author:Kochurani Abraham
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030214883
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

The Violence of Merciless ‘Self-Giving’

Mariya, a mother of five children, is the daughter-in-law in a traditional migrant family to north Kerala. Her story speaks for many women who continue to be like ‘bread that is broken’92 so that others in the family may have life. We give her a hearing:

I studied only up to the high school level, then worked in a tailoring centre for three years before marriage. I could not go to college as we had no money. Because I was fair and good looking as per our community’s standards, I got a proposal when I was just nineteen years old. The boy’s family was much better off than ours, they had their own property, and so this proposal was much beyond what my family could aspire for. Luckily they did not demand much dowry, all they wanted was the girl and so I was married off rather young.

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