Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 274 pages) : illustrations |
Contents |
Introduction -- 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 -- Love's Rite: Traditions of Love, Friendship, and Marriage -- From 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 -- Conclusion |
Summary |
This is the first book to examine same-sex weddings and same-sex couple suicides in India today, discussing these phenomena both in the context of the international debate on gay marriage, and in the context of past and present Indian and Euro-American cultural representations of same-sex union |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-268) and index |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Same-sex marriage.
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Same-sex marriage -- India
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Same-sex marriage -- United States
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology -- Marriage & Family.
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Same-sex marriage
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India
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United States
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781403981608 |
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1403981604 |
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1403970386 |
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9781403970381 |
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