“There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously male or female) population of citizens, with the women respectably desexualized, is a process that is central to… — Nivedita Menon Copy Share Image
“[E]ven today, when confident and self-affirmative lesbian identities have emerged and are available to women, images of 'lesbianism’ are still regularly appropriated by a… — Nivedita Menon Copy Share Image
“[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears responsibility to some degree for maintaining these protocols of intolerance, which could not be kept in place if every single one of us did not play our part. From bringing up children ‘appropriately’, to lovingly correcting or punishing… — Nivedita Menon Copy Share
“[D]emanding wages for housework (…) forced recognition of the fact that the domestic work which women do has economic value. But many feminists feel that this demand leaves untouched the sexual division of labour - indeed, measures like paid maternity leave (…) can be seen as a form of’wages for motherhood’ but(…) it fixes women more rigidly into work defined… — Nivedita Menon Copy Share
“There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously male or… — Nivedita Menon Copy Share Image
“[O]nce we give up on the idea that only heterosexuality is normal and that all human bodies are clearly either male or female, more… — Nivedita Menon Copy Share Image
![“[E]ven today, when confident and self-affirmative lesbian identities have emerged and are available to women, images of 'lesbianism’ are still regularly appropriated by a male heterosexual pornographic imagination which cannot accept that this is one party to which men are not invited and at which…” quote by Nivedita Menon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/55b/nivedita-menon-63731_male-gaze_e-ven-today-when-confident-and-self-affi_176734.jpg)
![“[O]nce we give up on the idea that only heterosexuality is normal and that all human bodies are clearly either male or female, more and more kinds of bodies and desires will come into view. Perhaps also, one body may, in one lifetime, move through many identities and desires. The use of,queer’…” quote by Nivedita Menon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/745/nivedita-menon-63731_gender_o-nce-we-give-up-on-the-idea-that-only-h_2711609.jpg)