03373nam 22004573a 450 991083187750332120250322110037.097814780912571478091258https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822374749(CKB)4950000000290201(OCoLC)945613145(ScCtBLL)5421cf57-8ae2-416a-a761-8f0da726df71(ODN)ODN0010711216(DE-B1597)733006(DE-B1597)9781478091257(EXLCZ)99495000000029020120211214i20162017 uu enguru||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierSexual States : Governance and the Struggle over the Antisodomy Law in India /Jyoti PuriDurham NC :Duke University Press,2016.1 online resource (231 p.)Next Wave: New Directions in Women's StudiesFrontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE. INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1. Governing Sexuality, Constituting States -- CHAPTER 2. Engendering Social Problems, Exposing Sexuality’s Effects on Biopolitical States -- PART TWO. SEXUAL LIVES OF JURIDICAL GOVERNANCE -- CHAPTER 3. State Scripts: Antisodomy Law and the Annals of Law and Law Enforcement -- CHAPTER 4. “Half Truths”: Racializations, Habitual Criminals, and the Police -- PART THREE. OPPOSING LAW, CONTESTING GOVERNANCE -- CHAPTER 5. Pivoting toward the State: Phase One of the Struggle against Section 377 -- CHAPTER 6. State versus Sexuality: Decriminalizing and Recriminalizing Homosexuality in the Postliberalized Context -- Afterlives -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexIn Sexual States Jyoti Puri tracks the efforts to decriminalize homosexuality in India to show how the regulation of sexuality is fundamentally tied to the creation and enduring existence of the state. Since 2001 activists have attempted to rewrite Section 377 of the Indian Penal Code, which in addition to outlawing homosexual behavior is often used to prosecute a range of activities and groups that are considered perverse. Having interviewed activists and NGO workers throughout five metropolitan centers, investigated crime statistics and case law, visited various state institutions, and met with the police, Puri found that Section 377 is but one element of how homosexuality is regulated in India. This statute works alongside the large and complex system of laws, practices, policies, and discourses intended to mitigate sexuality's threat to the social order while upholding the state as inevitable, legitimate, and indispensable. By highlighting the various means through which the regulation of sexuality constitutes India's heterogeneous and fragmented "sexual state," Puri provides a conceptual framework to understand the links between sexuality and the state more broadly.Next Wave: New Directions in Women's StudiesPolitical Science / History & TheorybisacshPolitical sciencePolitical Science / History & TheoryPolitical science.Puri Jyoti883908ScCtBLLScCtBLLBOOK9910831877503321Sexual states2055182UNINA