Seeing Like A Feminist, Nivedita Menon
Seeing Like A Feminist, Nivedita Menon
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Seeing Like A Feminist

Author: Nivedita Menon

Narrator: Pallavi Bharti

Unabridged: 6 hr 55 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 02/14/2023

Synopsis

THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENSFor Nivedita Menon, feminism is not about a moment of final triumph over patriarchy but about the gradual transformation of the social field so decisively that old markers shift forever. From sexual harassment charges against international figures to the challenge that caste politics poses to feminism, from the ban on the veil in France to the attempt to impose skirts on international women badminton players, from queer politics to domestic servants’ unions to the Pink Chaddi campaign, Menon deftly illustrates how feminism complicates the field irrevocably.Incisive, eclectic and politically engaged, Seeing like a Feminist is a bold and wide-ranging book that reorders contemporary society.

About The Author

Nivedita Menon teaches Political Thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her previous books include Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law (2004); an edited volume, Sexualities (2007); and Power and Contestation: India after 1989 (2007, co-authored with Aditya Nigam). An active commentator on the blog kafila.org, she has also translated fiction and non-fiction from Hindi and Malayalam into English. She has been active with citizens’ forums in Delhi on secularism, workers’ and women’s rights, sexuality, and in opposition to the nuclear bomb.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Siddharth on September 14, 2014

A must read for everyone who 1. Is not entirely sure what Feminism is all about 2. Is interested in the varied issues it seeks to tackle, and the varied position of feminists themselves on such issues 3. Is one of those who (in Nivedita Menon's words) go, " I believe in equal rights for women, but I'm......more

Goodreads review by Prerna on November 25, 2020

This is one of the most well organized books I've read on feminism. Although covering a wide range of opinions on current feminist issues, this book does not purport to be any kind of guide to understanding a singular feminist view, rather, Menon insists that there is no such thing. Despite its radic......more

Goodreads review by Sushmita on April 01, 2016

I realized, after reading this book, that there are some things that can only be understood by those who live in the same environment as you. I mean, I can talk about the rights of differently abled people, but the truth is I don't know what it is like to be one of them. There are things in life wh......more

Goodreads review by Anushree on July 01, 2017

Naarivad behna, dheere dheere aayi! "Feminism is not about that moment of final triumph, but about the gradual transformation of the social field so decisively that old markers shift forever. This shift is what "enables" many young women today to say, "I believe in equal rights for women, but I'm not......more

Goodreads review by Nikhil on October 12, 2016

The most topical issue in our times is that of feminism. But what is feminism? Is there a precise belief as such? To answer my questions, I started reading ‘Seeing like a Feminist’ by Nivedita Menon in the hope that I would have a clear picture of what this is all about. It covers a spectrum of seem......more

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