Love's rite : same sex marriage in India and the West / / Ruth Vanita
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiii, 274 p. ) : ill |
| Disciplina: | 306.848 |
| Soggetto topico: | Same-sex marriage |
| Same-sex marriage - India | |
| Same-sex marriage - United States | |
| Note generali: | Formerly CIP. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-268) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Love's rite |
| ISBN: | 9786611365165 |
| 1-281-36516-5 | |
| 1-349-53208-8 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910824836303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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