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

• Autore: Puri Jyoti
• Pubblicazione: Durham : , : Duke University Press, , 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (233 pages)
• Disciplina: 345.54/02536; 345.5402536
• Soggetto topico: Sodomy - Law and legislation - India; Homosexuality - Law and legislation - India; Criminal justice, Administration of - India
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Sexual states
• ISBN: 0-8223-7474-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910136420503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Next wave.