{"id":1606,"date":"2014-07-23T23:30:20","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T23:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1606"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:27:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T23:27:10","slug":"feminist-dilemmas-around-sexuality-and-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/?p=1606","title":{"rendered":"Feminist Dilemmas around Sexuality and Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"userContent\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-1607 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/1.jpg\" alt=\"1\" width=\"344\" height=\"488\" \/>The Centre for Humanities Research and the University of the Western Cape invites you to the second Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Lecture in African Humanities and Letters for 2014:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nivedita Menon (University of Delhi, India)<br \/>\n&#8216;Feminist D<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ilemmas around Sexuality and Agency&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Date: Wednesday, 23 July 2014<br \/>\nTime: 3 &#8211; 4:30pm<br \/>\nVenue: Library Auditorium, UWC<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"userContent\"><span class=\"text_exposed_show\">NIVEDITA MENON is Professor in the Centre for Comparative Politics &amp; Political Theory, School of International Studies at the University of Delhi where she teaches Political Thought. Her books include Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law, an edited volume Sexualities (2007) and Power and Contestation: India after 1989 (co-authored with Aditya Nigam). An active commentator on the blog kafila.org, she has been active with citizens forums in Delhi around secularism, workers and women\u2019s rights, and sexuality.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uwc.ac.za\/Faculties\/ART\/Centre-for-Humanities-Research\/Events\/Pages\/The-Andrew-W--Mellon-UWC--Distinguished-Lectures-in-African-Humanities-and-Letters-Nivedita-Menon.aspx#.U912bUjFIy4\">http:\/\/www.uwc.ac.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Humanities Research and the University of the Western Cape invites you to the second Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Lecture in African Humanities and Letters for 2014:<\/p>\n<p>Nivedita Menon (University of Delhi, India)<br \/>\n&#8216;Feminist Dilemmas around Sexuality and Agency&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Date: Wednesday, 23 July 2014<br \/>\nTime: 3 &#8211; 4:30pm<br \/>\nVenue: Library Auditorium, UWC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1606"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5014,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1606\/revisions\/5014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.damne.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}