ABSTRACT

In Chapter 7, Jane Krishnas explores Recovering Subversion, Feminist Politics Beyond the Law by Nivedita Menon. The chapter considers the importance of centring and listening to women’s experience, challenging the processes and systems that marginalise and erode women’s voices. It argues that the methodology employed challenges and reconstructs conceptions of agency, capacity, and location of the rights bearer within the plurality of legal systems, beyond ‘due process’, to highlight what may be understood as the most invaluable tool in feminist critical theory: to listen to the plurality of women’s voices to create new agencies, capacity, and spaces to transform justice.