03422nam 22007575 450 991097542820332120240307121845.09786611365165978128136516312813651659781349532087134953208810.1057/9781403981608(CKB)1000000000245879(StDuBDS)AH19567540(MiAaPQ)EBC307955(DE-He213)978-1-4039-8160-8(Au-PeEL)EBL307955(CaPaEBR)ebr10135547(CaONFJC)MIL136516(OCoLC)312482670(Perlego)3497404(EXLCZ)99100000000024587920151222d2005 u| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierLove's Rite Same-Sex Marriage in India and the West /by R. Vanita1st ed. 2005.New York :Palgrave Macmillan US :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2005.1 online resource (xiii, 274 p. ) illFormerly CIP.Uk9781403970381 1403970386 9781403981608 1403981604 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.CultureSexRaceEthnologySociology of CultureGender StudiesRace and Ethnicity StudiesSociocultural AnthropologyCulture.Sex.Race.Ethnology.Sociology of Culture.Gender Studies.Race and Ethnicity Studies.Sociocultural Anthropology.306.848Vanita Ruth1791759MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910975428203321Love's Rite4329552UNINA