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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136420503321

Autore

Puri Jyoti

Titolo

Sexual states : governance and the decriminalization of sodomy in India's present / / Jyoti Puri

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-8223-7474-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 pages)

Collana

Next wave

Disciplina

345.54/02536

345.5402536

Soggetti

Sodomy - Law and legislation - India

Homosexuality - Law and legislation - India

Criminal justice, Administration of - India

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Governing sexuality, constituting states -- Engendering social problems, exposing sexuality's effects on biopolitical states -- State scripts : antisodomy law and the annals of law and law enforcement -- "Half truths" : racializations, habitual criminals, and the police -- Pivoting toward the state : phase one of the struggle against section -- State versus sexuality : decriminalizing and recriminalizing homosexuality in the postliberalized context.

Sommario/riassunto

In Sexual States Jyoti Puri uses the example of the recent efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the Indian state.