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Nivedita Menon explores the relationship between law and feminist politics in her book Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics beyond the Law. She argues that the intersection of feminist politics, law and the state often paradoxically and severely distorts important ethical and emancipatory impulses of feminism. She reviews historical challenges to the liberal notion of rights from Marxist, feminist, postcolonial and critical legal scholars, and analyses current Indian debates on topics including abortion, sexual violence and parliamentary quotas for women. Far from being a call to withdraw from the arena of law, Recovering Subversion instead urges feminists everywhere to recognize the limits of "rights discourse" and pleads for a politics that goes beyond its boundaries.

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