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Autore |
Vanita Ruth |
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Titolo |
Love's rite : same sex marriage in India and the West / / Ruth Vanita |
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New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
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ISBN |
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9786611365165 |
1-281-36516-5 |
1-349-53208-8 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiii, 274 p. ) : ill |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Same-sex marriage |
Same-sex marriage - India |
Same-sex marriage - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Who decides? Marriage law, the state, and mutual consent -- Is the spirit gendered? Fluid gender, sex-change, and same-sex marriage -- "Immortal longings": love-death, rebirth, and union through life after life -- A second self: traditions of romantic friendship -- Monstrous to miraculous: same-sex reproduction and parenting -- All in the family: same-sex relationships in traditional families -- "Married among their companions": female-female relations in pre-modern erotica -- Aspiring to union: twentieth-century cinema. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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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