02991nam 2200577Ia 450 991078368380332120230617035835.097866113651651-281-36516-51-349-53208-810.1057/9781403981608(CKB)1000000000245879(StDuBDS)AH19567540(MiAaPQ)EBC307955(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8160-8(Au-PeEL)EBL307955(CaPaEBR)ebr10135547(CaONFJC)MIL136516(OCoLC)312482670(EXLCZ)99100000000024587920050324d2005 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLove's rite[electronic resource] same sex marriage in India and the West /Ruth Vanita1st ed.New York Palgrave Macmillan20051 online resource (xiii, 274 p. ) illFormerly CIP.Uk1-4039-7038-6 1-4039-8160-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index.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.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.Same-sex marriageSame-sex marriageIndiaSame-sex marriageUnited StatesSame-sex marriage.Same-sex marriageSame-sex marriage306.848Vanita Ruth1472804MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783683803321Love's rite3685732UNINA