“Left Legalism/Left Critique" by Wendy Brown and Janet Halley is an edited collection of essays which discusses left’s critique of legal liberalism. The editors in the introductory essay define legal liberalism as “modern democratic constitutionalism rooted in abstract individualism”. The central argument of the book is that left politics has…

Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick is considered as one of the initial contributors to the development of queer theory. Her book “Epistemology of the Closet” came in 1990s in the background of the emerging gay and lesbian political movements in United States. Most of these movements maintained a “minority” position that gays…

Madhavi Menon offers an interesting glimpse into the history of desire in India, where she juxtaposes the conservative elements of Manusmriti with the sexually liberatory texts like Kamasutra. The colonial state influenced by Victorian values rejected Kamasutra; the rich history of homoerotic relationships between Sufi saints and their disciples; practices…