Nivedita menon feminism5/9/2023 ![]() The book is definitely aided by Menon’s position as a woman who has lived with India’s legal and cultural systems. Menon relates each of this big issues to a simple dynamic: choice. ![]() She divides Seeing Like a Feminist into six main chapters: Family, Body, Desire, Sexual Violence, Feminists and Women, and Victims or Agents. whose previous books include Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law (2004). Menon is a professor of political thought at Jewaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. Reading Seeing Like a Feminist made me think: what if we all, especially in academia, thought like feminists? What would the world look like then? To be a feminist is to understand the position of the powerless, as Menon writes, “to imagine occupying the marginal, relatively powerless position with reference to every dominant framework that swallows up the space at the centre.” ![]() It reveals the strenuous, complex formatting that goes on below the surface of what looked smooth and complete.” When one “sees” the world like a feminist, Menon writes in her introduction, it is like “activating the ‘reveal formatting’ function in Microsoft Word. ![]() Nivedita Menon’s Seeing Like a Feminist (Penguin/Zubaan, 2012) is a timely work that explains a complicated subject without over-simplifying it. Some books are easy to read, yet stay with you long after you’ve finished the last chapter. ![]()
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