Progressive power-sharing is defined over a subordinated sexual division of labor

Evidence

The clash between kinship and politics is one of Chatterjee’s main points. What role does the figure of woman play here? In the dispersal of this field of power, the sexual division of labor is progressively defined from above as power-sharing. That story is the underside of the taxonomy of power that Chatterjee unfolds. — Donna Landry and Gerald MacLean, The Spivak Reader, 1841

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the lex oppia and modesty-panics thread: ‘progressive’ claims about social form routinely conceal the persistent gendered underside, a parallel angle to the immodesty article.