In a social structure marked by domination and subordination, the issue of power and resistance gains importance: the dominants exercise power to control the subordinates, and the latter offer resistance to the forces of domination and control. The issue of resistance offered by women, the subordinate gender, against the patriarchal domination of men, did not get due importance till recently. There are two aspects-the collective aspects of protest and revolt as compared to the individual character of ‘resistance’. This paper looks at the issues and makes out a case for sifting through ethnographic data to study the resistance strategies offered by women in the context of their everyday lives.
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