It also paints a picture of the history of family, gender and sexuality in India, its heterogeneity and the advantages of the same to the cause of the marginalized. This comes out beautifully in the chapter on family, gender and desire. It does not position the world with a feminist lens into existing societal and political norms but investigates and examines, the very idea of societal and political norms and the basis for the same.
The book talks about various aspects of social and political construct this was one of the key ideas that I found striking. What struck me deeply is the eclecticism, the forgotten and unobserved nuance, the political engagement and the plurality and intersectionality of the issue that is beautifully laid out for the reader to engage with and examine. The book is the second in feminist literature I have read. One in my early advents in reading non-fiction and one that I patiently but rapturously absorbed in early 2021. I recently completed reading ‘Seeing Like a Feminist’ by Nivedita Menon. I just wasn’t sure what I wanted to engage with, what my personal niche is and what outcome or process did I expect (and accept) as a moment of change in feminist dialogue and crusade.
Towards late 2019, I had gradually disengaged with the feminist movement and found myself lost in the nitty-gritties of work and life that my privileged position provided.
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