ABSTRACT
The chapter discusses the contested concept of the power and politics in the context of the gender. It analyses various perspectives of power and emphasises specifically on the feminist perspective and the postmodern feminist perspective. The construction of the gender identity; the exercise of the gender dominance across family, community and state; the lower political participation; and low economic status of women indicate gender powerlessness which is political. The gender power and gender politics do not function as a single and a monolithic factor rather intersect with race, class, caste, ethnicity and with other axes of oppression. The chapter therefore highlights intersectionality of power and also focuses on potential realisation and exercise of agency by powerless.
