Career
She is the author of Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law (2004). And the editor of Gender and Politics in India (1999) and Sexualities (Women Unlimited, 2008). Her book Seeing Like a Feminist, released in 2012 was well received.
She writes on current issues in Economic and Political Weekly, kafila.org, and several newspapers.
Menon has been involved in a wide range of political and social movements. Major books published are: Power and Contestation: India since 1989 (Global History of the Present) (2007).
Seeing Like a Feminist (2012). Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond The Law (2004).
Sexualities (collected volume) The title of the book is a take-off from *Seeing Like a State by James C. Scott.
The Hindu denoted in their review Nivedita "dissects social institutions, policy, and common ideas to explain the many ways the process of “gendering” occurs — here making a distinction between ‘sex’ as the biological characteristics and ‘gender’ as the set of cultural meanings that are arrived at over time." She is known for her staunch opposition to Nuclear Power In her speech, she stated that "Everyone knows that India is illegally occupying Kashmir. lieutenant is said the world over. Everybody accepts". The youth wing of the BJP filed a complaint against Menon and Kanhaiya Kumar, saying they made "anti-national" statements.
Menon later stated that she had not said anything anti-national.
