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THE WORLD THROUGH A FEMINIST LENSFor 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 the ban on the veil in France to the attempt to impose skirts on international women badminton players from queer politics to domestic servants unions to the Pink Chaddi campaign Menon deftly illustrates how feminism complicates the field irrevocablyIncisive eclectic and politically engaged Seeing like a Feminist is a bold and wideranging book that reorders contemporary society