![]() ![]() ![]() The author starts presenting her points with a quick look at nude makeup. Many subtleties that I overlooked, and social norms that I accepted without questions were brought to light in a manner where I realised that their obviousness was a patriarchal construct in itself. Nivedita Menon questioned many of the fundamental beliefs I held in this direction. In my mind, my family, my school, my friends and my immediate society were an epitome of idealised existence where gender equality was an obvious assumption, not a right to fight for. When I heard, or read about gender bias, discrimination against women, social bias among other issues, I looked outside my family, my school and the immediate society for examples, never within. I held this belief that I was brought up in a modern liberal family, where there were no undue restrictions on female members and my sister and me were equal in all respects. That was the core reason behind my decision to pursue Gender Studies as a course in the first place. Afterall, I constantly identified myself as one. When I started reading Nivedita Menon’s ‘Seeing Like a Feminist’, I had a clear cut preconceived notion of what feminism is and what it means to be a feminist. “Feminism is not about that moment of final triumph, but about the gradual transformation of the social field so decisively that old markers shift forever. ![]()
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