Love’s Rite : Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West Paperback / softback
by R. Vanita
Paperback / softback
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This is the first book to examine the same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides reported in India over the last two decades.
Ruth Vanita examines these cases in the context of a wide variety of same-sex unions, from Fourteenth-century narratives about co-wives who miraculously produce a child together, to Nineteenth-century depictions of ritualized unions between women, to marriages between gay men and lesbians arranged over the internet.
Examining the changing legal, literary, religious and social Indian and Euro-American traditions within which same-sex unions are embedded, she brings a fresh perspective to the gay marriage debate, suggesting that same-sex marriage dwells not at the margins but at the heart of culture.
Love's Rites by Ruth Vanita is a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:274 pages, 8 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 274 p. 8 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:12/10/2005
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- ISBN:9781349532087
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:274 pages, 8 Illustrations, black and white; XIII, 274 p. 8 illus.
- Publisher:Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:12/10/2005
- Category:
- ISBN:9781349532087