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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9781349532087
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-1-349-53208-7
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
- Erscheinungstermin: 12.10.2005
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2005
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 371 g
- Seiten: 274
- Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 16 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt