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A bold and wide-ranging book that re-orders contemporary society For 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 feminist dilemmas regarding commercial surrogacy to the Shah Bano case; from queer politics to domestic servants’ unions to the Pink Chaddi campaign; from the ban on the veil in France to the attempt to impose skirts on international women badminton players, Menon insists that feminism complicates the field irrevocably. About the Author Nivedita Menon teaches Political Thought at Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi. Her previous books include Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law, an edited volume Sexualities (2007) and Power and Contestation: India after 1989 (co-authored with Aditya Nigam). An active commentator on the blog kafila.org, she has been active with citizens’ forums in Delhi around secularism, workers’ and women’s rights, sexuality, and in opposition to the nuclear bomb.