Nivedita Menon

“[E]ven today, when confident and self-affirmative lesbian identities have emerged and are available to women, images of `lesbianism’ are still regularly appropriated…

— Nivedita Menon

“[S]ocial order displays not the absolute presence or absence of intolerance to difference but a spectrum of intolerance. Each of us bears…

— Nivedita Menon

“[D]emanding wages for housework (…) forced recognition of the fact that the domestic work which women do has economic value. But many…

— Nivedita Menon

“There is abundant scholarship which establishes that the delegitimation of homosexual desire and the production of the naturally heterosexual, properly bi-gendered (unambiguously…

— Nivedita Menon

“[O]nce we give up on the idea that only heterosexuality is normal and that all human bodies are clearly either male or…

— Nivedita Menon