... understand how gender power relations work to reproduce health inequity without also understanding how gender intersects with economic inequality, racial or ethnic hierarchy, caste domination, ... actors who practice and are invested in them. Women and men play important roles in maintaining norms but also in subverting and transforming them. Because of the nature of power and dissent, norms ... have to spend in child-bearing and rearing, and diminishing the hold of patriarchal family structures on women and younger members (Hopkins, 2001). In some instances, however, these changes also...